Please write environment variable configuration to ~/.pam_environent and ~/.profile, or /etc/profile.d instead of ~/.bashrc

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Since Apr 3, 2021.

  • #20 by @michaelstoops — open

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3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
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Issue type
Bug
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Mostly clear
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Stale
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shell
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Inspect the setup script that currently writes environment variables to ~/.bashrc, and review linked pull request #20 for existing work. Verify the chosen ~/.pam_environment, ~/.profile, or /etc/profile.d behavior works outside interactive Bash sessions and with another shell or a graphical IDE.

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Description

This script write environment variable configuration to ~/.bashrc, which means that this configuration will only take effect in an interactive bash session. However, users may want to launch the IDE under a graphical environment, or they may wish to use a different shell, e.g. zsh.
So the configuration should be writen to ~/.pam_environment and ~/.profile instead. Alternatively, if the configuration needs to take effect for all users, the script should create a new file in /etc/profile.d and write the configuration there.

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