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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more)


From: James Blackwell
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Default version for star-merge (and more)
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2004 15:01:36 -0400

> On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 01:49:41PM -0400, James Blackwell wrote:
>> In .arch-params/=aliases/ one will find files with names similiar to
>> 

Scott Parish replied:
> What's wrong with:
>
> $ cat >> ~/.profile <<EOF
> address@hidden/tla--rbrowse--1.3
> address@hidden/tla--devo
> address@hidden
> address@hidden
> EOF
> $ source ~/.profile
> $ tla rbrowse $lord
> $ tla get $blacky_rbrowse
> $ tla star-merge $tladevo


Yuck. I don't like that. That would clog up my environment. 

Besides. That's a waste of a couple-few hundred bytes for every shell,
even the ones that have absolutely nothing to do with tla. 

Imagine if every program did that, rather than storing configuration
information in config files? 

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