Hi. Let's see what we should do to remove PATH from /etc/profile.
Ubuntu did that a lot of time ago and this is their changelog:
base-files (3.1.9ubuntu3) dapper; urgency=low
* Implement OneTruePathSpec:
* share/profile: Remove PATH setting.
* debian/control: Add dependency libpam-modules (>= 0.79-3ubuntu3) so that
the user does not end up without any $PATH at all.
So, before I go ahead, I'd like to be sure that things will not break horribly
for somebody. Do we need any kind of dependency like the one on libpam-modules
above? (It's no longer in their current debian/control file).
Can we also drop PATH from /etc/profile in non-Linux systems like hurd-i386?
(I'm Cc:ing Samuel for that).
Thanks.
