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  1. Bug #348640
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Comment 9 for bug 348640

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 348640] Re: Want a variable to override location of ~/.bazaar etc

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On 4/5/2011 2:49 AM, Martin Pool wrote:
> On 5 April 2011 10:37, Max Bowsher <email address hidden> wrote:
>>> I think there's an XDG convention for how the environment variable
>>> should be named; we should use that.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure the original requester is asking for a way to override
>> the *entire* directory name - i.e.
>> $NOTIONAL_NEW_ENV_VAR/{bazaar.conf,plugins/,locations.conf,...}
>
> Right.
>
>> As far as I know, XDG only operates at the level of defining conventions
>> for trees, within which apps reserve particular paths - not envvar
>> conventions for envvars private to specific apps?
>
> OK. I didn't check. Something like BZR_CONFIG_DIR could be good.
>

I thought that is what BZR_HOME does. Is it not handling plugins correctly?

John
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