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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 8/31/2014 4:31 AM, Lorenzo Marcantonio wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 08:26:46PM -0500, Moses McKnight wrote:
>> I also did not mess with the fp-lib-table and it is still in the home
>> directory.  I figured that one might be better there where it is easily
>> opened and edited manually.
> 
> If I wanted to edit that manually I'd know where it's located. And in
> the home is, quite simple, in the way :P
> 
> By the way, I always wondered... why using env vars instead of settings
> in a config file? IIRC there were really angry people at the prospect of
> having to set environment variables (which is, by the way, the usual way
> of doing that on posix systems...)
> 
> Especially since Debian policy explicitly forbids to have applications
> relying on them; I don't agree with that and they even patch in defaults
> which is a Bad Thing(tm) for me:P
> 

I need to take a look at this.  An order of precedence has already been
established: environment variable, user configuration, default.  It just
needs to be coded.  I am not willing to give up being able to trump
everything with an environment variable for development purposes.