On Fri, 11 Aug 2006, Augusto Arcoverde da Rocha wrote: [...]
But, I have read in somewhere a reply from Alexander about avoiding environment variables. However, I can't find this message again.
Maybe you are thinking about the one in which he argues against introducing new obsucure Wine-specific environment variables. I think that was was about something like WINECONSOLEBACKEND.
But this is different since it is not about defining Wine-specific environment variables, but making good use of the ones that exist already.