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bug#23118: Duplicate entries in various environment variables
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Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: |
bug#23118: Duplicate entries in various environment variables |
Date: |
Fri, 07 Oct 2022 21:51:26 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
[...]
> More generally, this can become an issue when environment variables
> reach a certain size (and has led to bug reports in Guix before, which
> have since been fixed). POSIX mandates a syntax, that would allow
> removing already present components first (see [1]), but I can hardly
> imagine what monstrosities we would need to cook up to do this
> reliably. Not to mention, that some otherwise POSIX-compliant shells
> might not implement that syntax (correctly).
Why are we talking about POSIX here? Our wrap-program procedure makes
use of Bash; we could make use of its features to filter duplicates,
right? Unless I'm missing something.
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Thanks,
Maxim
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