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Re: Why is the default $HOME /homeless-shelter?
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Ludovic Courtès |
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Re: Why is the default $HOME /homeless-shelter? |
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Sun, 17 Nov 2019 22:39:28 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi!
Because it’s always been this way! :-)
This is inherited from Nix. The rationale is that there’s no home
directory in build environments, and perhaps Eelco Dolstra and others
back then found that setting ‘HOME’ to a non-existing directory broke
fewer builds that leaving it unset.
HTH,
Ludo’.