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bug#39940: The variable operating-system-release
From: |
Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#39940: The variable operating-system-release |
Date: |
Fri, 29 Jan 2021 07:26:10 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> Some relevant information:
>
> This variable was added due to the issues discussed in this old
> thread:
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-01/msg00629.html
I did not read the complete thread, but I guess the upshot is that we're
not going to obsolete this variable.
I have altered the doc string to say what it actually is, though.
> See also
>
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2005-01/msg00835.html
>
> (I guess I never got any responses, and so the documentation never
> happened ;-)
This bit in particular:
> Finally, and most importantly, if we add the call to uname, why not
> store all of the info it returns in some Lisp data structure, not just
> the OS release?
That is a good question, and would be a better design than just this
single variable. But I guess that nobody has requested the rest of the
data?
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