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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/13/2016 12:04 PM, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 13.04.2016 02:40, David Godfrey wrote:
> 
>> The use of Env Vars is the only sensible and portable method that can be
>> used.
> 
> From a distribution point of view: this is unusable. We need to ship
> something that can be started from a desktop icon, without extra setup,
> and users need to be able to configure everything from the UI, because
> we cannot expect them to learn how environment variables are set this week.
> 
> Debian policy explicitly forbids this, for a reason.
> 
>    Simon

No system or user level environment variables need to be set so there
should be no Debian policy violation.  All environment variables are
user configurable with kicad, are set per process, and have platform
specific defaults that work for clean installs.  System and user level
environment variables can be used at the discretion of the user but are
not required.

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