Re: ✘ Release blockers?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Kai!

On Tue, 31 Dec 2019 22:56:56 +0100
Kai Harrekilde-Petersen <address@hidden> wrote:

> > Unless you live in the USA.  This can be changed with the
> > (undocumented) XGPSOPTS environment variable.  I guess it could be
> > a build time option. 
> 
> Considering that there are about 195 countries in the world (193 part
> of the UN, a few observers etc), not living in the USA is a
> reasonable assumption.

Dunno.  We have no good stas on gpsd usage.  Should we add spy code
to gpsd?

> The world population clock say we are 7.8 billion people on planet 
> Earth, with about 0.33B of those living in the USA.

But do they count?  :-)

BTW, I just documented XGPSOPTS in the man page.

Maybe there should be a compile time options for distros to use.

> That the US is still using British Imperial Units is comical, 

Yeah, much of reality is comical...

> considering that you guys actually fought a war to get out of the 
> British Empire.

Out of their empire, not out of their language, legal system, food, etc.
Sometimes we are more British than the Brits.

> Happy New Years, everyone.

Yes, Happy New Year!  On to the new decade.

RGDS
GARY
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