[arch-projects] [initscripts][RFC][PATCH] locale.sh: add support for user-specific locale.conf, drop DAEMON_LOCALE

[Dave Reisner]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 04:31:09PM +0200, Sébastien Luttringer wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:44 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> >> Still, I guess my point is that we should be testing for the presence of
> >> variables before trying to expand them.
> >>
> >> if [ -n "$HOME" ] && [ -s "$HOME/.config/locale.conf ]; then
> >
> > I agree. Will post a new version.
> >
> >>> The way XDG_* is set is just messed up. One might hope that one day it
> >>> will be done better (say by a pam module). Shouldn't need to be part
> >>> of xorg, it is useful even with no graphical login.
> >>>
> >>
> >> I think other distros might order scripts by number. I've always thought
> >> that /etc/profile.d stuff is pretty ridiculous, but it's also roughly
> >> par for the course when you're talking about anything involving shell.
> >
> > Sure, but most of these things are not shell-specific, so I hope
> > something better will come along...
> >
> > -t
> /etc/environment and ~/.pam_environment are loaded by pam_env. This
> handle all loading of env vars without focus on locales one.
> 
> The missing feature is a kind of env.d directory.
> 
> Why not only drop all stuff based on scripts shell and use pam_env?
> 

Sure, you can even do something like:

session required pam_env.so conffile=/dev/null envfile=/etc/locale.conf user_envfile=.config/locale.conf

But, pam_env has no ability to filter/allow a specific set of variables.
You could put anything you want in here.

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