[haiku-development] Re: Removing /boot/common
- From: Lrrr Of Omicron Persei 8 <lrrr.of.omicronpersei8@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2013 14:33:09 -0600
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 10:53 AM, John Scipione <jscipione@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > With all of Urias's complaints about YAB noted in the record above,
> > bbjimmy's suggestion seems like a decent solution to his immediate
> > problem, updating the finddir command to redirect instead of returning
> > an error needs to happen to make the software work again.
>
> I agree it is reasonable to have finddir support deprecated constants
> and have then return the "redirected" directory for that constant.
>
I don't think it's that big a deal that they are unavailable in the
/bin/finddir command. Compiled applications are unlikely to be calling a
command line app to find this information and scripts can be easily edited
to use a new constant.
--Lrrr
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