Re: Shell variable

["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>]

> hi,
> 
> On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 01:19:05AM +0100, Adrian Mastronardi wrote:
>> I need to setup an shell variable:
>> ENFDATA=/usr/share/rnamotif/enfdata/
> 
> according to debian policy, programs must not have to rely on the
> existence of environment variables.  what you should probably do is
> hard-code into the applications that need this variable a default
> location of /usr/share/rnamotif/enfdata/, and then allow the user to
> override this value via the same environment variable.
> 

Alternatively, you may install a wrapper that sources some configuration
file in /etc and then execs the main binary.