On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 06:09:48PM +0100, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > On Thu, Mar 6, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Filippo Giunchedi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there no way to avoid the temporary file completely? > > > If not, why can't the file be created in /tmp by default? > > > > that's the current behaviour and I'd like not to break it, besides, do you > > run > > Break? Or change? > What would break?
Break. For example scripts relying on mirrors_full being in the same directory as netselect is launched. > > > netselect-apt that often? > > No. Still, I'd like to keep my system clean and not discover files > named mirrors_full in a random place on my file system. netselect-apt writes sources.list also to the current directory, so I'd say it is the same thing. > > > Creating an alias to netselect -i /tmp/mirrors_full isn't much work either. > > I'm quite sure everyone forgets to do that before he runs it for the first > time. Point, I don't want to bikeshed here, I'll change the default behaviour after lenny. filippo -- Filippo Giunchedi - http://esaurito.net PGP key: 0x6B79D401 random quote follows: It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa. -- Alan Perlis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
