From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 34154@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#34154] [PATCH] /etc/os-release
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2019 12:37:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h8dz7gg5.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h8dzheyp.fsf@gnu.org>
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>> It looks like some build systems can try to get information from it
>> during building if they have distro-specific things to do.
>
> That is precisely the kind of bad practice that I’d rather not
> encourage. :-)
Build systems doing this is bad, of course, but if this was a script
that tried to be helpful by telling the user what commands to run to
install dependencies I think it could be helpful.
(I have a vague memory of a project that tried to figure out how to
detect if the script is running on a Guix system by checking for
/run/current-system and the like.)
/etc/os-release would be a friendlier indicator than
/run/current-system.
--
Ricardo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-01-23 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-01-21 10:17 [bug#34154] [PATCH] /etc/os-release Efraim Flashner
2019-01-22 21:38 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-23 7:20 ` Efraim Flashner
2019-01-23 9:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-01-23 11:37 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2019-01-23 14:32 ` ng0
2019-01-25 8:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
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2021-08-06 3:06 ` Maxim Cournoyer
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