On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 11:31:38PM +0100, FRIGN wrote: > On Mon, 3 Nov 2014 17:01:13 -0500 > Brandon Mulcahy <bran...@jangler.info> wrote: > > > I'm not advocating a more general approach, however; that minor convenience > > would be nowhere near worth the headache of having to figure out whether > > a program is being invoked by a user or by another program in the general > > case. > > Parsing environment variables is complex and can lead to issues depending > on which shell you use, ultimately exposing the program to unnecessary > bloat and security considerations. > For options, we have command line arguments for a reason. If you need > defaults, set a bloody alias.
I agree completely!
