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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 12:54:25 +0000
From: Dominic Mitchell <dom@semantico.com>
To: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: cdcontrol and environment vars - opinions please.
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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


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