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diff --git a/hurd/settrans/discussion.mdwn b/hurd/settrans/discussion.mdwn index c9ec4d34..74f1c8f5 100644 --- a/hurd/settrans/discussion.mdwn +++ b/hurd/settrans/discussion.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -16,3 +16,24 @@ License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] <antrik> ugh... I just realized why settrans -a without -f doesn't generally work on filesystem translators <antrik> obviously, it needs -R too! + + +# IRC, freenode, #hurd, 2012-08-17 + + <antrik> youpi: no, only the -g is redundant; i.e. -ga is the same as -a + <antrik> (actually, not redundant, but rather simply meaningless in this + case) + <antrik> -g tells what to do with an active translator *when a passive one + is changed* + <antrik> if no passive one is changed, it does nothing + <antrik> (and I realized that after using the Hurd for only 6 years or so + ;-) ) + <braunr> it's not obvious + <antrik> braunr: indeed. it's not obvious at all from the --help output :-( + <antrik> not sure though how to make it clearer + <braunr> the idea isn't obvious + <braunr> perhaps telling that "setting a passive translator" also applies + to removing it, i.e. setting it to none + <antrik> braunr: well, the fact that a translator is unset by setting it to + nothing is unclear in general, not only for passive translator. I agree + that pointing this out should make things much more clear in general... |