Re: LI18NUX comments to LSB 0.4.2
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > 6, Lack of Utiliries
> > The following shell and utilities required for LI18NUX2000 are lacked
>
> I dont think the LSB should be mandating many of the listed tools. Some of them
> are only relevant to developers for example. And why is vi required. vi is not
> used programatically by another tool so seems outside the lsb remit
char *editor = getenv ("VISUAL");
if (editor == NULL)
editor = getenv ("EDITOR");
if (editor != NULL)
{
execl (editor, filename, NULL);
}
else
{
execl ("vi", filename, NULL);
}
SUS teaches us that we can rely on vi being present.
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