From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 16 7:11: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dfw-smtpout2.email.verio.net (dfw-smtpout2.email.verio.net [129.250.36.42]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3350C37B401 for ; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 07:10:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from [129.250.38.64] (helo=dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net) by dfw-smtpout2.email.verio.net with esmtp id 14IXks-0002lt-00; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:10:38 +0000 Received: from [168.143.2.191] (helo=leviathan.clark.net) by dfw-mmp4.email.verio.net with esmtp id 14IXkq-00002U-00; Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:10:36 +0000 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.2.20010116100905.00a69e30@mail.clark.net> X-Sender: thomas@mail.clark.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 10:11:37 -0500 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Josef Karthauser From: Mark Thomas Subject: Re: cdcontrol and environment vars - opinions please. Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: References: <20010116121921.A632@tao.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:14 PM 1/16/01 +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 totally agree with the idea of deprecating all but $CDROM. To be picky, CD-ROM is not equal to CD-DA. I don't know if it really matters though. Mark --- thomas@clark.net ---> http://www.clark.net/pub/thomas PBEM Eldritch --------> http://www.pbegames.com [TM4463-ORG] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message