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bug#39940: The variable operating-system-release
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From: |
Glenn Morris |
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Subject: |
bug#39940: The variable operating-system-release |
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Date: |
Thu, 05 Mar 2020 20:19:31 -0500 |
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User-agent: |
Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Package: emacs
Version: 28.0.50
Severity: wishlist
I found the variable 'operating-system-release' for the first time today.
1) This isn't what I would call the operating system release.
Eg my current operating system is CentOS, release 8.1.
operating-system-release is "4.18.0-147.5.1.el8_1.x86_64",
which is the kernel version. (Surprising to find these two things
mixed up in a GNU project. :) )
2) I don't see why it is useful to have a Lisp variable for this
(it had one use in the Emacs C code before c996fe1ec6).
I suggest obsoleting it.
- bug#39940: The variable operating-system-release,
Glenn Morris <=