> > What are use-cases for current cat behaviour? If there is > > none besides being used as a filter, let's please make it > > ignore interactive viewers and just pipe the result to > > stdout. > > That makes sense, but I can think of no generic way to know if it's an > interactive viewer.
I thought "copiousoutput" meant "non-interactive stdout". Am I mistaken? > I suppose we can say that between $DISPLAY and > "needsterminal" that covers almost all possibilities. Unfortunately I know of at least one filter (unoconv) that connects to the X server (to access the openoffice server, I believe). So if we want that to work, it's not really an option to unset DISPLAY prior to running mailcap tests. Aron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
