default profile does not evaluate 'lesspipe'

[leon breedt]

the default shell profile does not eval the 'lesspipe' command, causing 'less
<filename>.gz' to display binary junk instead of filtering it through gzip.

perhaps this could be changed in /etc/profile or in the
/etc/skel/.bash{rc,_profile} provided by bash to improve the initial user
experience.

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

This seems reasonable, as long as it is implemented in such a way that it does
not break if lesspipe is not available

[leon breedt (bitserf+bugzilla)]

a better way to implement this than directly in /etc/profile would
probably be something similar to the /etc/profile.d shipped by Red
Hat, containing *.sh, and *.csh files, and /etc/profile sources *.sh.
the less package would then provide a file in /etc/profile.d that
evaluates lesspipe.

however, i'm not sure if this is too divergent from Debian proper?

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Relevant mailing list thread:

http://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2004-October/006930.html

[Matt Zimmerman (mdz)]

Apparently, some other popular distributions enable this functionality by default.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Enabled in the skeleton .bashrc file. Do we really want these
same additions in the system files?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

Enabled in the skeleton .bashrc file.