[systemd-devel] PATCH: handle SYSTEMCTL_OPTIONS in systemctl

[Kay Sievers]

On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 6:15 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
> 'Twas brillig, and Frederic Crozat at 16/01/13 17:07 did gyre and gimble:
>> I was planning to handle this environment variable in our tools but
>> tools team would prefer to have it in systemctl. I guess I'll have to
>> maintain this patch downstream in openSUSE :(
>
> It would seem to me that the tools is where it should be handled (as is
> done in the initscripts wrapper), but hey ho' - everyone prefers it done
> elsewhere.
>
> At least it's a relatively neat patch and hopefully it's need within
> Suse will disappear as the tools are refactored anyway?

Environments are inherited, which is often a source of confusing
behaviour, when tools don't expect a certain call chain.

We generally try to avoid environment variables for other problems
than debugging, user defaults, or system-wide settings.

Kay