On 10 Jun 2013, at 11:34, Fotis GEORGATOS wrote: >>> 1. should one be able to set language specific environment variables >>> from the easyconfig directly (without the need to provide an easyblock)? >>> To me this seems to be a rather generic problem, which could be solved >>> with something similar to modextravars, only that it should append to >>> these. >> >> modextravars is actually sufficient for this, no? Do you want a dedicated >> easyconfig parameter for this? And if so, why in particular? > > I thought modextravars can only do setenv, can it also do prepend-path etc?
Try modextrapaths (new in v1.5), see "eb -a". K.

