Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re:

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Thomas Zander <address@hidden>

    > > [bugs #6592] Starting w/o $HOME gives wierd error message.

    > >   Sure, that should be fixed by making a nicer error
    > >   message.

    > The bug report asked to convert this to a warning since my guess is that 
    > this is not a fatal problem.
    > Did you miss that, or is my guess wrong?

I think it is so close to fatal as to make for nevermind.

Very little (not nothing but precious little) can be done without, for
example, the archive registrations stored in $HOME.   And, conversely, 
running with $HOME not set would _usually_ indicate that "something
else" has gone badly wrong.

-t