Re: "Read my lips: no more merges" - aka Linux 2.6.14-rc1

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