Paul Brook wrote:
In the absence of a global configuration file, a reasonably sane way to
support this configuration system wide is to use an environmental
variable. QEMU already uses a number of global variables for
configuring audio options.
I'd really prefer we didn't do this, and preferably obsoleted/removed the
existing environment variables. IMHO using environment variables is a really
bad idea and should be avoided wherever possible.
Any suggestion on an alternative mechanism then? Can we introduce a
config file and slowly introduce options into it?
Regards,
Anthony Liguori
Environment variables are about the worst user interface I can think of. For a
start they're a global resource, which is limited on some systems.
It's also extremely hard to determine what environment a user is running. This
makes reproducing user bugs somewhere between hard and impossible.
Paul
