Bug#133578: gdm: default locale setting

Denis Barbier barbier@linuxfr.org (Denis Barbier), 133578@bugs.debian.org
Sat, 17 Apr 2004 15:02:34 +0200


On Fri, Apr 16, 2004 at 09:13:42PM -0700, Ryan Murray wrote:
> tag - 133578 patch
> thanks
> 
> Just to make it clear to everyone involved -- #133578 is waiting for #214898
> to be fixed in glibc.  I'm not going to parse/use a tool to read the PAM
> configuration file /etc/environment.  That config file is for setting up
> the _login_ environment, not the system boot environment.

Parsing /etc/environment would satisfy almost all gdm users.  Moreover
gdm display has nothing to do with system boot, using a login
environment is much saner.

Denis