Roy Marples wrote:
> So, the question is, do we want to maintain one massive KV_to_int that
> has different code paths for uname -s output, or get function.sh to
> include an OS specific file we supply just for this one function?
> 
> Or just put the function in modules-update and udev as they are the only
> two applications that use it.
>
I vote for option 1b, if that's how you've decided to implement it. I'd
rather it was just a simple function in the OS-specific function.sh though.

>> if you want a cleaner interface for is_older_than, then we could hammer
>> that out, but if it's just a pass through to a C applet, then leaving it
>> alone makes sense.
> 
> Currently it's neither as it's been integrated into the librc dependency
> code. Again, the only consumer of this function is now modules-update.
> 
OK, but that doesn't mean it won't be needed in the future. It's already
there, it might be handy later, leave it available imho.


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