Re: cvs commit: src/usr.bin Makefile src/usr.bin/pkg_radd Makefile pkg_radd.1 pkg_radd.sh

["Justin C. Sherrill" <justin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, January 5, 2008 4:45 pm, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> Thomas E. Spanjaard wrote:
>>>> In this case i think the best thing for just one setting would be
>>>> an environment variable.
>>> +1
>> +1
>
> Yes, you might like it, but it doesn't work.  There is no easy and
> portable way to set environment variables for all shells which work for
> users and root and which persists through su and sudo.  Plus then you're
> abusing the file where you are configuring the environment variables as
> a generic configuration file, exactly like you want to avoid.

Why aren't we adding it to mk.conf?  pkg_add already looks there.