On Saturday 6 November 1999, at 18 h 14, the keyboard of "Ean R . Schuessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I do understand that Debian policy discourages the concept of a > program requiring that an environment variable be set in order to > operate sanely. Note there are several reasons to do so and it may be interesting to remind them: - ease of use for new users (no .bashrc to edit) and for the sysadmin (there is no way in Unix to set a system-wide env. variable), - consistency between a shell into xterm ran by Gnome, a shell made after a telnet/rlogin or a console, which have different initialization files. > through the CLASSPATH environment variable. Stephane's solution has > been to essentially disable the use of this feature within the Debian > system. NO, NO, NO. I never said that. I proposed a way to make CLASSPATH *optional* (it is currently mandatory to set a proper CLASSPATH).
