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Matt Mackall wrote:
> 
> That idea doesn't suck. I'll take a look at it.
> 
> We still have a problem with overriding things like console=tty, for
> which there's no obvious fix that doesn't break the world.
> 

One could define "console=" (empty argument) as a command to reset the 
list.  It probably would be useful.

	-hpa