Please stick to the merits of the proposal and don't speculate about my motivations. My only intent here is to avoid stamping a faulty design with the debian seal of approval by putting it in our policy.
Having options that are only available from environment variables and not from configuration files is a bad idea. It's a lesson that has been learned many times in the past and it's why that rule in policy is there. If we're going to put this in policy we should do it right. Your other example, LANG, is also a bad design, it should have a global default in /etc, however there are other reasons that wouldn't work, some which stem from bad design choices in POSIX. Nicolás Lichtmaier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Look. This is widely implemented... A few people like you are proposing > things just to modify things, but without offering any improvement. You are > trying to "dilute" the thing, to turn it in an endless discussion. -- greg
