Re: what is vlsd?

Sam Hocevar <[email protected]> Tue, 14 Oct 2003 10:51:51 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.video.videolan.vls.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Tue, Oct 14, 2003, Tristan Leteurtre wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 13, 2003, Sam Hocevar wrote:
> >    Is there a reason for having vlsd instead of just a -d flag?
> 
> Maybe the same for having gvlc instead of vlc --intf gnome ;)

   These shortcuts are common for GUI launchers that don't accept
arguments to the launched applications. I know it's considered bad
style, but at least they are symlinks, not a copy of the whole
application :-)

-- 
Sam.

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