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[PATCH 00/12] Add "least authority" program wrapper

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Message #68 received at 54997 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 54997 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#54997: [PATCH 00/12] Add "least authority" program wrapper
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:04:28 +0200

Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès schreef op zo 17-04-2022 om 23:04 [+0200]:
>> +(define %precious-variables
>> +  ;; Environment variables preserved by the wrapper by default.
>> +  '("HOME" "USER" "LOGNAME" "DISPLAY" "XAUTHORITY" "TERM" "TZ" "PAGER"))
>
> This appears to be duplicated from (guix profiles), so there seems to
> be a risk here of them going out-of-sync; would it make send for
> (guix profiles) to read (guix least-authority) here?

It is duplicated, but OTOH the use case is different.  So I think it’s
OK to have a different definition here.

(Perhaps eventually we’ll do something fancier, like preserving
XAUTHORITY and DISPLAY if and only if we’re running an X11 program.)

Ludo’.

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