Hi Uwe, On Thursday 31 July 2014 09:44:16 Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > On Thu, Jul 31, 2014 at 09:33:02AM +0200, Juergen Borleis wrote: > > Hi Uwe, > > > > On Thursday 31 July 2014 09:14:25 Uwe Kleine-König wrote: > > > [...] > > > Compared with storing the default environment in the external store the > > > only difference is that you don't need to modify it if you change the > > > internal one, right? > > > > This would also be an advantage of this new feature. > > The only one even? No. Confusing error messages are gone and we can force the intended behaviour as well. > > > I wonder what the targeted use case is. > > > > To use an external stored environment *only* for development purposes or > > tests and to keep the possibility to do so. > > Doesn't make a warm and cosy feeling. Isn't it easier and more robust to > just not tell barebox about the external storage at all and for the > testing/development procedure do an explicit > > loadenv /dev/tralala Developers are lazy... I'm sure they will not love you for this suggestion ;) Regards, Juergen -- Pengutronix e.K. | Juergen Borleis | Industrial Linux Solutions | http://www.pengutronix.de/ | _______________________________________________ barebox mailing list barebox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/barebox
