Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1

From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Sep 16, 2005, 13:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20050916135641.GA13762@thunk.org>
In-Reply-To: <1126822093.27951.74.camel@localhost>

On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:08:12AM +0200, Christian Meder wrote:

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> Debian prefers to call the symlink "pager" and let the sysadmin decide
> where it should point: less, more, whatever. The e2fsprogs upstream
> package for instance supports PAGER->/usr/bin/pager->/usr/bin/less.
> Granted /usr/bin/pager is probably Debian only but every upstream author
> deciding whether to use PAGER:more or PAGER:less is not _that_ much
> better.

Actually, debugfs uses $DEBUGFS_PAGER:$PAGER:pager:more:less as its search path, where it looks for each executable in /usr/bin, /bin, and the current directory.

Overkill, yes; but it was the best way to shut up the whiny debian users who kept on filing bug reports. (Yes, yes, I'm softie. Besides, it's userspace, and compared to GNOME, KDE, or Mozilla, the bloat involved isn't even measurable. :-)

							- Ted