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From: Paul Brook <paul@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH] Add support for a
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Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:59:40 +0100
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> Why not just bypass the whole config file idea and just use enviornment
> variables?  

Absolutely not. Environment variables are a horrid way of configuring things.

Paul

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