On Mon, Apr 17, 2006 at 03:24:39AM -0700, Duncan wrote: > > > as such I have question relating to a bug[1] submitted by a Debian user. > > > > Is there a good reason why pan stores its score file in ~/News/ rather > > than in ~/.pan2/ where everything else related to pan is stored? > > > > And if so, would anyone mind if I came up with a patch to make it a > > command line option (or tweakable from the preferences)? > > > > > > [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=362904 > > The score file is a fairly standard layout shared with a number of other > clients, not something unique to PAN. As such, I believe the thought was > that it should be in a common location, as well, the better to allow > transparent sharing. If you check other *ix news clients, I'm guessing > that at least one besides PAN will use that location by default. (Gnews > rings a bell, but the memory is fuzzy so that might not be it.)
I checked google sporadically before posting, nothing obvious popped up, which is why I posted my question here. Thanks for the excellent explanation. > > In 0.14 series PAN, the location of the scorefile was configurable in the > preferences dialog. (I had mine relocated to the ~/.pan/data/ dir, too.) > > The preferences dialog had been temporarily removed from the 0.9x series > to see what options folks actually needed.. 0.93 has it back, but I've not > yet compiled 0.93 (planning to after I catch up on the lists) so I'm not > sure if that preference is there yet or not (there was only one mention of > it until yours, so it hadn't looked all that needed yet). As far as I can tell, it's not in there. > > With your request from Debian, Charles will probably put it back if it's > not there already, given Debian's status. Well, it's not really a request from Debian, as much as it is a request from a single Debian user. Although I must admit, the idea of keeping ~/ litter-free does greatly appeal to me. Also, are there really that many people who actually use more than one news client on a single machine (ie. the number of people who benefit from having the Score file in a single unified location)? Thanks for the reply, it was quite informtive. -- Søren O. "Oh, bother" said the Borg, "we've assimilated Pooh". _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
