severity 16282 wishlist tags 16282 wontfix close 16282 stop
(triaging old bugs) Hello, On 2013-12-28 1:03 p.m., Paul Eggert wrote:
[...] 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.
Given the above, and with no further comments in 5 years, I'm closing this bug. More details about the reasoning for rejecting new environment variables are summarized here: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#envvar regards, - assaf
