From owner-freebsd-arch Thu Jun 29 9:45: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from dt052n3e.san.rr.com (dt052n3e.san.rr.com [204.210.33.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE6B037B914 for ; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:44:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (doug@master [10.0.0.2]) by dt052n3e.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA06867; Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:44:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from DougB@gorean.org) Message-ID: <395B7CF2.AAFEAEB5@gorean.org> Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 09:44:34 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT-0628 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: mergemaster: Change in description of envar handling References: <57199.962270621@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sheldon Hearn wrote: > > Hi Doug, > > I'd like to propose a change to the wording of a warning displayed by > mergemaster: > > *** Your PAGER environment variable specifies 'less', but > I cannot execute it. In general it is good practice to > specify the full path for environment variables like > PAGER and EDITOR. Meanwhile, what would you like to do? > What I _would_ like to address is the incorrect description of "good > practice" with respect to environment variables. > > It is very commonly accepted practice to set EDITOR, PAGER and the like > using partial pathnames. Commonly accepted != good. :) > Would you be happy with this change? No. I already conceded part of this point a while back when I developed the .mergemasterrc mechanism so that people could specify their own PATH (among other things), so there is already a way out of this for those who are not interested in specifying the full path to their PAGER. I'm definitely not going to support a text change which moves away from encouraging "best practice." I do have some changes for mergemaster coming that I hope to wrap up during the long weekend. Stay tuned. Doug -- "Live free or die" - State motto of my ancestral homeland, New Hampshire Do YOU Yahoo!? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message