On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Colin Guthrie <gm...@colin.guthr.ie> wrote: > 'Twas brillig, and Frederic Crozat at 16/01/13 17:07 did gyre and gimble: >> I was planning to handle this environment variable in our tools but >> tools team would prefer to have it in systemctl. I guess I'll have to >> maintain this patch downstream in openSUSE :( > > It would seem to me that the tools is where it should be handled (as is > done in the initscripts wrapper), but hey ho' - everyone prefers it done > elsewhere. > > At least it's a relatively neat patch and hopefully it's need within > Suse will disappear as the tools are refactored anyway?
Environments are inherited, which is often a source of confusing behaviour, when tools don't expect a certain call chain. We generally try to avoid environment variables for other problems than debugging, user defaults, or system-wide settings. Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
