Re: Path modification

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Jon Eisenstein wrote:
> If, according to policy, no package is allowed to modify
> environment variables, how should any package make the needed
> change? Furthermore, doesn't this violate the policy (in the same
> section) that no program can require an environment variable to be changed
> in order to be run?

Policy actually says:

     A program must not depend on environment variables to get
     reasonable defaults.

I think others in this thread have provided suffucient arguments that
it's reasonable to expect mh users to do what they are used to doing to
get mh to work.

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