Re: [ndctl PATCH] ndctl/list: Drop named list objects from verbose listing

["Verma, Vishal L" <vishal.l.verma@intel.com>]

On Wed, 2020-02-19 at 12:09 -0800, Dan Williams wrote:
> > > 
> > > Let's do a compromise, because users also hate nonsensical legacy that
> > > they can't avoid. How about an environment variable,
> > > "NDCTL_LIST_LINT", that users can set to opt into the latest /
> > > cleanest output format with the understanding that the clean up may
> > > regress scripts that were dependent on the old bugs.
> > > 
> > Hm, this sounds good in concept, but how about waiting for this cleanup
> > to go in after the (yes, long pending) config rework. Then this can just
> > be a global config setting, and we won't have config things coming from
> > the environment as well (which this would be a first of).
> 
> That does make some sense, but I notice that git deals with "cosmetic"
> environment variables (GIT_EDITOR, GIT_PAGER, etc) in addition to its
> config file. So if we're borrowing from git, I'd also borrow that
> config vs environment logic.

True, that's reasonable. I guess I was hoping to avoid, if we can,
suddenly having a multitude of config sources, but env variables are
pretty standard and it should be fine to add them.
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