KConfig and $HOME

[Allen Winter]

On Friday 12 October 2007 10:57:28 am Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On Friday 12 October 2007, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > Allen Winter wrote:
> > >Thomas and PutHuhn,
> > >
> > >We really need to be backwards compatible on this issue.
> > >Please give KConfig the ability to read environment variables without
> > > the [$e]. Writing back out should use the [$e], however.
> >
> > No, it's just $HOME I think that is special-cased. No need to add more
> > features to something we want to deprecate.
> 
> what do we want to deprecate, exactly? env var references from config files? 
> and if so ... why?
> 
I think we want to:
1) support reading environment variables with or without the [$e]
2) support writing environment variables only with the [$e]