From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Junio C Hamano Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] help: use man viewer path from "man..path" config var Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 23:45:04 -0700 Message-ID: <7vzlsnpaj3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> References: <20080318062236.7b5e515f.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <200803210823.47899.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> <7vd4poqwu6.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <200803250719.02044.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Pascal Obry , Xavier Maillard , =?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCJDckaSQkJDckSiRKJDMbKEI=?= , git@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Couder X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Tue Mar 25 07:46:06 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Je2v6-00008K-9M for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:46:04 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751045AbYCYGpW convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:45:22 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751381AbYCYGpW (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:45:22 -0400 Received: from a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com ([207.106.133.19]:56772 "EHLO sasl.smtp.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751031AbYCYGpW convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:45:22 -0400 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7B862D88; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:45:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: from pobox.com (ip68-225-240-77.oc.oc.cox.net [68.225.240.77]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by a-sasl-fastnet.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id C39222D81; Tue, 25 Mar 2008 02:45:13 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: <200803250719.02044.chriscool@tuxfamily.org> (Christian Couder's message of "Tue, 25 Mar 2008 07:19:01 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Christian Couder writes: > Le vendredi 21 mars 2008, Junio C Hamano a =C3=A9crit : > ... >> For example, if a distro offers two versions of konq to co-exist on = the >> same system as konqueror-3 and konqueror-4 (with the usual symlink t= ricks >> /etc/alternatives/konqueror -> konqueror-3 and /usr/bin/konqueror -> >> /etc/alternatives/konqueror to make one version the systemwide defau= lt), >> people who want a particular version may say /usr/bin/konqueror-4 an= d >> would get frustrated to see kfmclient magic would not kick in. By t= aking >> honest route without magic, you would not have to worry about such >> potential confusion. > > In my experience KDE people have never changed the binary names like = that.=20 > They just use (or advice users to use) different directory names and = change=20 > environment variables (QTDIR, KDEDIR and maybe others) to point to th= e new=20 > dirs. I was more worried about what distro people do, not "KDE people". For example, Contents-i386.gz file from an unnamed distribution lists a handful /usr/bin/k*[0-9] files with their counterparts without the trailing digit.