Re: [GNUstep-packagers] patch for observance of $HOME

[Rogelio Serrano]

On 2004-08-06 15:36:51 +0800 Matt Rice <ratmice@yahoo.com> 
wrote:

> personally I don't think we should trust environment
> variables for reasons in the archive..
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnustep/2003-11/msg00015.html
>
> and would rather if we did something like cleanse
> make/GNUstep.sh of writes to the user root, so that it
> isn't breaking the sandbox if possible, so he doesn't
> have to redirect $HOME to a directory inside the
> sandbox (if i grok)
>
> maybe by setting an environment variable before
> sourcing GNUstep.sh to disable running make_services
> and stuff

I still believe that its better to set these during 
compilation. And that we all have a consensus on how to set up 
these paths for each and every platform GNUstep is going to 
run. And we use the path utilities to hide  these details from 
the app. In short no more hard coding of paths.