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Hi! |
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On Sun, 07 Oct 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote: |
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> "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o>: |
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> > I imagine there are a lot more cases where the simple on/off system |
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> > we have now is suboptimal. I could be wrong of course. Please comment. |
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> This key=value systems sounds interesting. Another use could be the |
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> choice between xulrunner, seamonkey, firefox. |
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And maybe it can be alleviated for some of the virtuals problem |
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space. For those apps that need an editor, one could think of |
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editor=vim. |
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That would then of course raise the question of a sensible |
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default - as it is with virtual/editor right now. |
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Generally, its prime area of use is where something can be |
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turned off (foo=off) or turned on with different ways of getting |
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the functionality (foo=gnufoo, foo=freefoo, foo=foong). |
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Another thing to keep in mind is though, that gnufoo might not |
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have all the nifty-but-patent-ridden stuff that freefoo has. Then |
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again, the user/sysadmin should know which of those fits the |
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bill. The question would only be how to convey this info to the |
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admin. |
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Regards, |
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Tobias |
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