[Pkg-zsh-devel] Bug#776663: zsh-common: Wish for /etc/zsh/zprofile.d or equivalent

[Franklin Yu]

Hello Frank,

> With respect to shells, I usually find that applications, that need to
> inject code into a user's shell to be by and large mis-designed.
>
> Something that *might* make sense is to source stuff from /etc/profile
> and “/etc/profile.d/” in POSIX-mode. See ¹, a mail about that from 2011.
> Nobody cared enough to reply; which I guess that tells you something
> about the urgency of the situation. ;-)
>
> [1]: http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-zsh-devel/2011-October/000248.html

I’d like to vote for exactly that; sourcing “/etc/profile” in POSIX-mode seems
very valid. This file currently seems POSIX without Bashism, and I propose to
keep it POSIX.

> But like the mails says, even if we did that, it's hard to decide what
> because it's not used for portable purposes alone. The bash completion
> thing is sourced from there, which other POSIX shells will have a major
> problem with.

I’m not familiar with other shells, but I don’t think Zsh in POSIX mode provides
the “$BASH” variable, so the Bash guard in “/etc/profile” should prevent it from
breaking Zsh.

Regards,
Franklin