Comment 14 for bug 67141

komputes: They aren't in the init scripts, etc.

The problem is that if a user adds GREP_OPTIONS to their environment (manually, or via .bashrc, etc.) then it can break init.d scripts, etc.

At the time, if you did `env GREP_OPTIONS=-E /etc/init.d/blah start` it could break the `blah` script in unpredictable ways. Also it can break various scripts in /usr/bin and /bin

Depending on the users setup, GREP_OPTIONS may also make it through a sudo call.

The reason why this is a problem is that troubleshooting this kind of problem can be very difficult because only the person with GREP_OPTIONS set will have the breakage and it'll not be obvious that this is happening.

I hope that clears this up.

Ciao!