Re: Canonical way for a package to set an environment variable

Thu, 16 Jan 2025 13:22:09 -0800 

Santiago,

On Thursday, January 16, 2025 1:50:15 PM MST Santiago Vila wrote:
> El 16/1/25 a las 21:01, Soren Stoutner escribió:
> > Is there a canonical way for a package to set an environment variable?
> 
> You should try to find another way, because Debian Policy 9.9 says this:
> > Programs installed on the system PATH (/bin, /usr/bin, /sbin, /usr/sbin, 
or
> > similar directories) must not > depend on custom environment variable
> > settings to get reasonable defaults.

Thanks for the Debian policy reference.  I will patch the Qt WebEngine source 
to achieve this without the need for an environment variable.

-- 
Soren Stoutner
so...@debian.org

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