Re: RFC: An alternative to /usr/share/java/repository
On Saturday 6 November 1999, at 18 h 14, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler"
<ean@novare.net> wrote:
> I do understand that Debian policy discourages the concept of a
> program requiring that an environment variable be set in order to
> operate sanely.
Note there are several reasons to do so and it may be interesting to remind
them:
- ease of use for new users (no .bashrc to edit) and for the sysadmin (there
is no way in Unix to set a system-wide env. variable),
- consistency between a shell into xterm ran by Gnome, a shell made after a
telnet/rlogin or a console, which have different initialization files.
> through the CLASSPATH environment variable. Stephane's solution has
> been to essentially disable the use of this feature within the Debian
> system.
NO, NO, NO. I never said that. I proposed a way to make CLASSPATH *optional*
(it is currently mandatory to set a proper CLASSPATH).
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