On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 12:02:33PM -0600, Nicolas Williams wrote: > Also, environment variables can be evil. Forget you have PKG_IMAGE set > and you'll get surprised... I'd recommend that users not set this in > their dot scripts.
A necesary evil, I would argue. Being able to set PKG_IMAGE is very useful for testing, and for any other situation where one wants to issue a lot of package commands and not supply the -R option time after time. It's quite possible to do any number of silly things if you're not paying attention. If you use a gas-powered weed eater and forget you're wearing shorts, you're also in for a surprise... -j _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
