From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <002101c3719f$b78d5ee0$3129ff87@bl.belllabs.com> From: "david presotto" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> References: <3F54CDD0.4000209@plan9.bell-labs.com> Subject: Re: [9fans] hack for /usr/$user/lib/face MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 18:15:27 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 2a4b2400-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 You're right of course. Merging the .dicts and the .machinelist is also not solved by binds. I forgot to get my brain our of neutral. Only has one gear anyways and that one is starting to slip. I realized my mistake driving up to Boston. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Russ Cox" To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:05 PM Subject: Re: [9fans] hack for /usr/$user/lib/face > David Presotto wrote: > > >we'ld need a deep bind or a hell of a lot of binds to personalize > >the database. as soon as someone writes a deep bind, I'll get rid > >of this. perhaps someone has? > > > > a deep bind doesn't solve this, really. i have my own face database > and i keep them in a directory "rsc/" so that i don't have to worry about > the deep bind. the problem is that there's one database per bit depth. > if you've got two different directory hierarchies, merging the databases > can't be done automatically with a bind. > > > >