Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 15:16:54 +0000 From: Josef Karthauser <joe@tao.org.uk> To: Mark Thomas <thomas@clark.net> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdcontrol and environment vars - opinions please. Message-ID: <20010116151654.C3073@tao.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.2.20010116100905.00a69e30@mail.clark.net>; from thomas@clark.net on Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:11:37AM -0500 References: <Josef <20010116121921.A632@tao.org.uk> <xzpwvbvk2j8.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <5.0.2.1.2.20010116100905.00a69e30@mail.clark.net>
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On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:11:37AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote: > At 03:14 PM 1/16/01 +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 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. Not at this point I would think. Most DVD style drives also support CD operations :), and it's not as if the CD is going to disappear over night. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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