[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#943917: some thoughts

[Nicholas Bamber]

I have come to believe this is not a bug.

It may be that environment.d is very nice for systemd integration, but 
it is not very granular. Any environment entered via that route will end 
up in systemd user environments possibly even when it was not intended.

Scripts in Xsession.d on the other hand may well write over environment 
variables but they are written in generic shell scripts and so can be 
tailored to only set environment variables in specific circumstances. I 
would guess (and I am guessing here) that environment.d gets processed 
before Xsession.d, and so scripts in Xsession.d could choose not 
override environment variables that have already been set if appropriate.