Bug 359169

Summary: man page lists $ in front of namess of environmental variables used
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kinit Reporter: Maximiliano Curia <maxy>
Component: generalAssignee: David Faure <faure>
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED    
Severity: wishlist CC: arthur.marsh, cullmann, jjm, kdelibs-bugs
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Debian unstable   
OS: Linux   
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Description Maximiliano Curia 2016-02-09 08:37:42 UTC 
(Forwarding debian https://bugs.debian.org/811165)
I read on the manual page for kdeinit5:

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       $HOME
           Specifies the home directory of the current user

       $KDE_HOME_READONLY
           Specifies if the home directory of the current user is read only

       $KDE_IS_PRELINKED
           If set, tells kdeinit5 that the KDE programs are pre-linked.

           (Prelinking is a process that allows you to speed up the process of
           dynamic linking.)

However they should be listed without the evaluation operator $ at the start.

Reproducible: Always
Comment 1 David Faure 2016-02-09 20:59:29 UTC 
Why?
Comment 2 Jonathan Marten 2016-02-10 08:13:53 UTC 
Well, without the $ seems to be the standard way of showing environment variables in man pages.  See for example bash(1), more(1), ps(1).
Comment 3 Christoph Cullmann 2023-07-03 21:05:59 UTC 
kinit is removed for the upcoming kf6, beside critical fixes nothing will be done in the kf5 branch.