Re: Environment variables for Debian (e.g. JAVA_HOME, etc)
The package does not depend on the env. variables, but they can enhance
the package's functionality.
Once again, if you have some java library, provided as a .jar, you may
not provide the correct CLASSPATH because the user can export it
himself. But this would ease the use of the library if the CLASSPATH is
already exported for all libraries.
Regards,
Sami Dalouche
Le lundi 06 septembre 2004 à 16:14 +0200, Martin Schulze a écrit :
> 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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