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From: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
To: lm-sensors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [lm-sensors] sensors.conf manpage name
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 12:57:50 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090929145750.3e7e09f0@hyperion.delvare> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4AC1C369.8090901@redhat.com>

Hi Hans,

On Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:20:57 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> I just received this bug report:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?idR6178
> 
> Which makes sense, so now I was thinking how to best handle this. We
> can make a sensors3.conf.5 symlink to sensors.conf.5 or we can just
> rename it. There is something to be said for both cases.
> 
> sensors3.conf is the new default name, but sensors.conf is still used
> as a fallback by libsensors.
> 
> So what is your 2 cents on this ?

I believe a symlink would solve the problem better. If we rename the
man page, then I can see old-timers complain next time they try "man
sensors.conf" and it fails. And as you said, both names are equally
valid.

-- 
Jean Delvare

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-29 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-09-29  8:20 [lm-sensors] sensors.conf manpage name Hans de Goede
2009-09-29 12:57 ` Jean Delvare [this message]
2009-09-30  8:10 ` Hans de Goede
2009-09-30  8:12 ` Jean Delvare
2009-10-01  7:01 ` Axel Thimm
2009-10-01  7:03 ` Jean Delvare
2009-10-01  7:30 ` Hans de Goede

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