Linda Walsh wrote: > Adding colons to the middle of the env var That would make the var impossible to use from the shell.
And no matter what the name is, if it makes a standard utility behave in odd ways, it'll break scripts that don't expect the odd behavior. That's the essential objection here. Yes, we've used env vars in the past for this, but we've come to regret it, and we don't want to make matters worse in this respect without a compelling justification.
