profile/README.md

Shared login profile

This repository owns the portable login environment. It is deliberately quiet, shell-agnostic and independent of interactive shell configuration.

Responsibilities

• Install ~/.profile as a symlink into this repository.
• Define XDG locations and general editor/browser environment variables.
• Construct PATH idempotently for language and user-level executables.
• Load portable login environment setup, such as Cargo's env file.

Boundaries

The profile file must remain safe for a POSIX shell to source during login. It must not print output, configure a prompt, define interactive conveniences, perform terminal operations or start background work.

Aliases, interactive functions, reminders, command catalogues, completion, history and prompt configuration belong to the relevant shell repository. User services and timers belong in the separate systemd repository.

Files

• profile: portable login environment and PATH construction.
• install.sh: installs the ~/.profile symlink.

Interactive Bash uses this environment through the conventional ~/.profile interface. This repository does not reference or load the Bash repository.