From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 16 6:54:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from tao.org.uk (unknown [194.128.198.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EDDE937B401 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 06:54:38 -0800 (PST) Received: by tao.org.uk (Postfix, from userid 100) id E78D83222; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:54:34 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 14:54:34 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdcontrol and environment vars - opinions please. Message-ID: <20010116145434.B3073@tao.org.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Josef Karthauser , Dag-Erling Smorgrav , stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010116121921.A632@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from des@ofug.org on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:14:03PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 03:14:03PM +0100, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Josef Karthauser 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