From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Theodore Ts'o Subject: Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1 Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:56:41 -0400 Message-ID: <20050916135641.GA13762@thunk.org> References: <1126674993.5681.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1126745323.7199.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43290486.5020301@zytor.com> <7v7jdibwqq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> <1126822093.27951.74.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Linus Torvalds , git@vger.kernel.org, David K?gedal X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Sep 16 15:59:20 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EGGiN-0003qk-Jy for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 15:57:19 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1161097AbVIPN4y (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:56:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1161099AbVIPN4y (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:56:54 -0400 Received: from thunk.org ([69.25.196.29]:6042 "EHLO thunker.thunk.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1161097AbVIPN4x (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:56:53 -0400 Received: from root (helo=think.thunk.org) by thunker.thunk.org with local-esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1EGGhn-0001lW-00; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:56:43 -0400 Received: from tytso by think.thunk.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EGGhl-0003b7-VT; Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:56:42 -0400 To: Christian Meder Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1126822093.27951.74.camel@localhost> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.10i Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:08:12AM +0200, Christian Meder wrote: > Debian prefers to call the symlink "pager" and let the sysadmin decide > where it should point: less, more, whatever. The e2fsprogs upstream > package for instance supports PAGER->/usr/bin/pager->/usr/bin/less. > Granted /usr/bin/pager is probably Debian only but every upstream author > deciding whether to use PAGER:more or PAGER:less is not _that_ much > better. Actually, debugfs uses $DEBUGFS_PAGER:$PAGER:pager:more:less as its search path, where it looks for each executable in /usr/bin, /bin, and the current directory. Overkill, yes; but it was the best way to shut up the whiny debian users who kept on filing bug reports. (Yes, yes, I'm softie. Besides, it's userspace, and compared to GNOME, KDE, or Mozilla, the bloat involved isn't even measurable. :-) - Ted