diff --git a/scratchpkg.conf b/scratchpkg.conf
index f2e3842..369ad05 100644
--- a/scratchpkg.conf
+++ b/scratchpkg.conf
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 ### CONFIGURATION FOR SCRATCHPKG (A SIMPLE PACKAGE MANAGER FOR LINUX FROM SCRATCH) ###
 
-export CFLAGS="-O2 -march=x86-64 -pipe"
-export CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
-export MAKEFLAGS="-j2"
+CFLAGS="-O2 -march=x86-64 -pipe"
+CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
+MAKEFLAGS="-j2"
 
 PACKAGE_DIR="/var/spkg/packages"
 SOURCE_DIR="/var/spkg/sources"