Re: dpkg-reconfigure affected by environment variables

2010-01-22 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 22 January 2010 10:03:07 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Is it normal that dpkg-reconfigure can be affected by environment > variables? That's pretty normal. Most programs don't go out of their way to ignore your environment settings. dpkg-reconfigure also uses things like LANG and LC_* for

dpkg-reconfigure affected by environment variables

2010-01-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Is it normal that dpkg-reconfigure can be affected by environment variables? For instance, I have PERL5LIB set to /home/vlefevre/lib/site_perl, and when I do a "su", this variable is kept in the environment, and in the strace output on a dpkg-reconfigure, I could see that $PERL5LIB was searched fo