[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH 0/5] CLI meta commands

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2015-05-05 at 00:13 +0200, Peter Meerwald wrote:
> patch 4 implements a new .ifenv CLI meta command I found useful: executes commands
> only when an environment variable exists (optionally with a certain value)

Can you elaborate, what problem you solve with environment variables? Is
there no reasonable alternative? Here is someone else's attempt at
explaining why environment variables are not nice:
http://peterlyons.com/problog/2010/02/environment-variables-considered-harmful

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Tanu