[Help-bash] ENV variable

[Timothy Madden]

Hello

I would like to make all my servers configuration (for our automated 
test scripts) portable and I was wondering why does bash not read the 
environment variable ENV by default ? The var is supposed to name a file 
with the same purpose as ~/.bashrc, and is used if I start bash with the 
--posix option or if I start it as sh.

But I do not want to change my login shell from bash to sh, or to pass 
--posix to every single shell I start. And the variable seems so 
harmless, why would bash not read it ?

Thank you,
Timothy Madden