Subject: Re: bug#10980: GNU bugs information: logs for bug#10980

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 05:39:14 +0300

> From: Noam Postavsky <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2016 17:03:21 -0400
> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
> 
> I feel like I'm missing some important point here. If these
> environment variables won't affect subprocess environments, why set
> them at all?

Because Emacs itself needs them.  They must be in Emacs's environment,
but don't have to be in Vprocess_environment.