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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
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          <th>Bug ID</th>
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   title="NEW --- - [REGRESSION] LESS cannot be overriden anymore - breaks scrolling"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62130">62130</a>
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>[REGRESSION] LESS cannot be overriden anymore - breaks scrolling
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          <th>QA Contact</th>
          <td>systemd-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux (All)
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>lekensteyn@gmail.com
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Other
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>general
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>systemd
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        <pre>The following commit causes a regression here:

commit a4c41bf3fa905c38e6e4d159c13eed890d53838b
Author: Lennart Poettering <<a href="mailto:lennart@poettering.net">lennart@poettering.net</a>>
Date:   Thu Mar 7 21:28:09 2013 +0100

    pager: always override LESS

    <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868383">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868383</a>

    Primary reason to do this is to ensure "-e" works as intended, and is
    not ignored because the user set his own LESS variable.

I used to run LESS=R journalctl -ab (or LESS=RS, or ...) to change the behavior
of the piper to my needs. Mainly allowing me to use my mouse wheel to scroll
faster through the logs. With systemd 198, I am unable to override LESS to
achieve that goal.

As a workaround, I can use journalctl -ab | less -R, but then I lose colors.
Please allow overriding LESS again, fixing bug
<a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868383">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=868383</a> can be done by educating the
user not to do stupid things with $LESS and/or by checking whether $LESS is
empty or not.</pre>
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