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bug#39940: The variable operating-system-release
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#39940: The variable operating-system-release |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Mar 2020 09:42:34 +0200 |
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 20:19:31 -0500
>
> 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.
(My Git repository doesn't know about commit c996fe1ec6. AFAICT, this
variable was added in 3bb9abc.)
Some relevant information:
This variable was added due to the issues discussed in this old
thread:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-01/msg00629.html
See also
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-01/msg00835.html
(I guess I never got any responses, and so the documentation never
happened ;-)