Comment 6 for bug 1771858

On 18 May 2018 at 19:01, Oliver Grawert <email address hidden> wrote:
> well, my subtle hint would point to simply add it to /etc/environment
> here, which would globally cover for everything, would allow us to drop
> the profile.d snippet in ubuntu images/installs and to my knowledge
> would even be used by systemd (or am i wrong here ?) ...
>
> (and i think it would even work for zsh)
>

Sorry, I do not have time for subtle hints.

As you are well aware, snapd cannot modify /etc/environment; (not
owned by it, it is freeform text, can contain anything, may or may not
have PATH setting, not-upgradable, so on and so forth)
said file is not used by systemd;
it would not cover things globally;
and specifically it would not cover things across other distributions.

There are reasons why integration snippet was shipped by snapd in
profile.d, and all of those reasons still stand.

And more-over the ethos for snapd packaging is to integrate into as
many systems as possible, in a native way.
Shipping appropriate system-environment-generators will achieve that
not only on Ubuntu classic installs but on any systemd-based Linux
distros too, which my understanding is the scope for the snapd
project.

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Regards,

Dimitri.