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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more)
From: |
Colin Walters |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more) |
Date: |
Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:32:18 -0400 |
On Tue, 2004-07-13 at 15:01 -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:49:41PM -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
> >> In .arch-params/=aliases/ one will find files with names similiar to
> >>
>
> Scott Parish replied:
> > What's wrong with:
> >
> > $ cat >> ~/.profile <<EOF
> > address@hidden/tla--rbrowse--1.3
> > address@hidden/tla--devo
> > address@hidden
> > address@hidden
> > EOF
> > $ source ~/.profile
> > $ tla rbrowse $lord
> > $ tla get $blacky_rbrowse
> > $ tla star-merge $tladevo
>
>
> Yuck. I don't like that. That would clog up my environment.
Heh. Like it would back up and overflow out your keyboard or
something? :)
> Besides. That's a waste of a couple-few hundred bytes for every shell,
> even the ones that have absolutely nothing to do with tla.
That's just a tiny percentage of the runtime size of tla, not to mention
any other programs you almost certainly have running.
> Imagine if every program did that, rather than storing configuration
> information in config files?
But you don't interactively use the configuration for other programs,
whereas you *do* interactively use these environment variables.
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge, John Meinel, 2004/07/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge, Tom Lord, 2004/07/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge, James Blackwell, 2004/07/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge, Tom Lord, 2004/07/12
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), James Blackwell, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), William Dode, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Scott Parish, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Andrew Suffield, 2004/07/13
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Stefan Monnier, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), James Blackwell, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more),
Colin Walters <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Scott Parish, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Aaron Bentley, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Ron Parker, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Aaron Bentley, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Andrew Suffield, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Tom Lord, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Aaron Bentley, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Tom Lord, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Tom Lord, 2004/07/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more), Tom Lord, 2004/07/13