> 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.
And what are environment variables for? And why are files always better that an environment variable? I agree with what the policy says, but you are taking it too far.
