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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability
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Matthew Palmer |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Jun 2004 21:04:21 +1000 |
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On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 12:09:29PM +0200, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-06-25 at 17:49 +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
>
> > What I'd really like, instead of that, is aliases for archives. Add an
> > --alias option to register-archive, which allows you to specify an alias
> > name. For simplicity, aliases probably shouldn't be allowed to be valid
> > archive names.
>
> Just use shell environment variables. They work perfectly for this
> purpose. No need to add anything to tla.
Well, to be fair, most of what's in tla can be done with some shell
scripting. The question of what should or shouldn't be in tla obviously
isn't based on what can be re-implemented in the shell. <grin>
- Matt
--
"I'm tempted to try Gentoo, but then I learned that its installer is in
Python, and, well, a base Python install on my system is something like
fifty megabytes (for what? oh, right, we NEED four XML libraries, I
forgot)." -- Dave Brown, ASR
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Pierce T . Wetter III, 2004/06/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Adrian Irving-Beer, 2004/06/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Matthew Palmer, 2004/06/25
- [Gnu-arch-users] Archive namespace usability (was: Online book for usability), David Allouche, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Archive namespace usability (was: Online book for usability), Matthew Palmer, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Archive namespace usability, Aaron Bentley, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Colin Walters, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability,
Matthew Palmer <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Tom Lord, 2004/06/30
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Matthew Dempsky, 2004/06/24
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Juliusz Chroboczek, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, James Blackwell, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Jani Monoses, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, James Blackwell, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Jani Monoses, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Aaron Bentley, 2004/06/25
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Online book for usability, Juliusz Chroboczek, 2004/06/25
- [Gnu-arch-users] Canonical wrapper? [was: Online book for usability], Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/06/26