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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2010 00:48:15 -0600
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@9fans.net>,
        "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
Subject: Re: [9fans] 9vx patch to read environment var PLAN9
From: "EBo" <ebo@sandien.com>
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> I don't mind adding more directories to the list in findroot,
> and something like /usr/local/9vx is certainly a better entry
> in that list than /home/rsc/plan9/4e (sorry).

no apologies necessary.  I actually liked Ethan Grammatikidis' last comments
regarding adding standard the standard locations.

> What I didn't understand was the rationale behind putting
> in a new environment variable when there is already a
> command-line option.  The argument about being right
> for the users is bogus: the amount of work required to
> make all users have the right environment variable setting
> is about the same as the amount of work required to
> make all users pass the right -r flag.

what I had meant is simply that when a user tries to run a program which has
been installed system wide it should simply work.  If writing a shell script
around the exe is considered a better way to go about it then I'm good with it.

  EBo --