Subject: bug#33787: Policy Change: Use of /etc/gnu.conf files to configure default system behavior

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 20 Dec 2018 16:48:23 -0800

If the behaviors you want cannot be done now via command-line options, 
that's not an argument against configuring via PATH; it's merely an 
argument that you would like some random features that the programs 
don't provide now.