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Subject: Re: Why is the default $HOME /homeless-shelter?
Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2019 22:39:28 +0100
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Hi!

Because it=E2=80=99s always been this way!  :-)

This is inherited from Nix.  The rationale is that there=E2=80=99s no home
directory in build environments, and perhaps Eelco Dolstra and others
back then found that setting =E2=80=98HOME=E2=80=99 to a non-existing direc=
tory broke
fewer builds that leaving it unset.

HTH,
Ludo=E2=80=99.