Re: Environment variables for Debian (e.g. JAVA_HOME, etc)

[Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.org>]

Sami Dalouche wrote:
> I hadn't looked at this policy before, but I still don't see the point.
> The fact that debian packages must NOT rely on env. variables doesn't mean that
> they can't provide some.

If they must not depend on them, why should they provide some?  That
would only be environment pollution which would also affect arbitrary
program execution (since the space for environment variables and arguments
is "only" 128kB large).

Regards,

	Joey

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