Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:54:25 +0000 From: Dominic Mitchell <dom@semantico.com> To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdcontrol and environment vars - opinions please. Message-ID: <20010116125425.A10823@semantico.com> In-Reply-To: <20010116121921.A632@tao.org.uk> References: <20010116121921.A632@tao.org.uk>
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 12:19:21PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote: > How many people are using cdcontrol and defining the drive name > using one of the following environment variables: MUSIC_CD, CD_DRIVE, > DISC and CDPLAY? > > I've no idea why there are so many different options - it seems a > bit daft to me. > > Recently we added another one: CDROM. What I'd like to do is > deprecate use of the others and adopt CDROM as standard. > > My question to anyone using the others is whether you'd especially > mind if cdcontrol still worked with the other env names, but > complained a bit that CDROM should be used instead? > > Does this sound sensible? Damned right. I was totally confused the last time that I looked at it. Are there any other programs in the tree which should be changed to fall into line? I can't think of any off hand, but there may be some. Also, what precedent do various ports set? I'm sure that xmcd has it's own list of variables that it uses... -Dom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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