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Re: /svn/athena r22975 - in trunk/debathena/debathena/dotfiles: . debian (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Nathan Price)
Mon May 12 17:59:41 2008
Date: Mon, 12 May 2008 17:58:57 -0400
From: Gregory Nathan Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
Cc: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 17:17 -0400, Timothy G Abbott wrote:
> > I think we may want to have the default .generation file have a comment at the
> > top explaining what its purpose is, to avoid people deleting it because they
> > don't realize it's important (the name is not sufficiently tied to Athena to
> > prevent people frmo thinking it's from something else). I'd recommend using #
> > comments and replacing
> >
> > cat $HOME/.generation
> >
> > with
> >
> > grep -v ^# $Home/.generation
> >
> > -Tim Abbott
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 05:27:40PM -0400, Greg Hudson wrote:
> I thought about it when I wrote the patch but decided to take the
> simpler approach, and I think I'm going to let it stay that way.
There are going to be some users who remove the .generation file
because it looks like junk, and then are mystified a week later when
they notice that their printing is simplex by default when everyone
else's is duplex. Is the grep -v ^# that much of a complication?
It's not a huge deal when it's just about printing sidedness, but if
the same mechanism is re-used for other changes -- and it does seem
like a handy mechanism that you'll want to use again -- it could
come to matter more.
Greg
