[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add VARIANT as a standard value for /etc/os-release

[Lennart Poettering]

On Tue, 28.04.15 17:10, Stephen Gallagher (sgallagh at redhat.com) wrote:

> +      <varlistentry>
> +        <term><varname>VARIANT=</varname></term>
> +
> +        <listitem><para>
> +        A string identifying a specific variant or edition of the
> +        operating system. This may be interpreted by other packages in
> +        order to determine a divergent default configuration. This
> +        field is optional and may not be implemented on all systems.
> +        Examples: <literal>VARIANT=Server</literal>,
> +        <literal>VARIANT=Embedded</literal>
> +        </para></listitem>
> +      </varlistentry>
> +

Hmm, so far for some of the fields we had "human friendly" and "parseable"
field pairs. For example: NAME= is the human friendly version of the
parseable field ID=, and  VERSION= is the human friendly version of
the parseable VERSION_ID=.

SHouldn't this be of the same kind? I.e. VARIANT= and VARIANT_ID=
where the former is a human friendly field (example: "Server Edition")
and the latter is a parseable field (example: "server")?

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat