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On Wednesday 30 May 2012 17:57:43 Michael Orlitzky wrote: |
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> On 05/30/2012 05:23 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> > On Wednesday 30 May 2012 13:01:24 Michał Górny wrote: |
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> >> This issue was given my attention through bug 418217 [1]. Long |
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> >> story short -- there are applications which call pager |
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> >> implicitly. Those are git & systemd. They don't actually require |
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> >> any pager being installed; however, if $PAGER is set they use |
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> >> it. |
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> > then isn't it a bug they aren't depending on virtual/pager ? |
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> Git works fine without a pager. It just won't work if $PAGER is set to |
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> something invalid. |
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then set PAGER to something valid |
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the defaults here are tuned to sanity which works for 99.9% of the people out |
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there. if you want to throw your system into an unreasonable state, then you |
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get to fix it up. |
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-mike |