Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:54:34 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdcontrol and environment vars - opinions please. Message-ID: <20010116145434.B3073@tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <xzpwvbvk2j8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:14:03PM %2B0100 References: <20010116121921.A632@tao.org.uk> <xzpwvbvk2j8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:14:03PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> writes: > > 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. > > Heh - I'm the one who added suport for $CDROM, and I had no idea the > others were supported - $CDROM was so self-evident (think of $TAPE, > used by pax(1), mt(1), tar(1), dump(8) and restore(8)) that it didn't > occur to me to check if it already supported other variables (plus, > they weren't documented). I thought that they weren't also, (I even added CDROM to the man page without noticing the others ;). In fact they're described in the second paragraph! :). Joe > > I totally agree with the idea of deprecating all but $CDROM. > > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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