-### posix
-export EDITOR=vim
-export PAGER=less
-export GREP_OPTIONS=--color=auto
-export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
-export LC_CTYPE="$LANG"
-
-### xdg
-export XDG_CONFIG_HOME=~/etc
-export XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=~/.config:/usr/pkg/etc/xdg:/usr/local/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg
-export XDG_DATA_HOME=~/share
-export XDG_DATA_DIRS=~/.local/share:/usr/pkg/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share
-export XDG_CACHE_HOME=~/tmp
-export XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=~/tmp
-
-### applications
-export PYTHONSTARTUP=~/.pythonrc
-## perl
-(( ${+commands[perl]} )) && eval $(perl -I $XDG_DATA_HOME/perl5/lib/perl5 -Mlocal::lib=$XDG_DATA_HOME/perl5)
-## gpg
-export GPG_TTY=$(tty)
-if [[ ! -v SSH_AUTH_SOCK ]] {
- # set up SSH auth socket and start GPG agent
- export SSH_AUTH_SOCK=$(gpgconf --list-dirs agent-ssh-socket)
+# manually source .zprofile if we're not a login shell and it's a good idea
+# see comments in .zprofile for rationale
+if [[ ! -o login ]] {
+ if [[ -v _sev_olduser && $_sev_olduser != $USERNAME ]] {
+ # set up some user-dependent stuff since we switched users
+ _sev_switched_users= source ${ZDOTDIR:-~}/.zprofile
+ } elif [[ $SHLVL == 1 ]] {
+ # ensure profile is loaded for toplevel shells; should hopefully be 1
+ # under Xorg or cron, which is where this would be most useful
+ source ${ZDOTDIR:-~}/.zprofile
+ }