Notices by aliss (aliss@outerheaven.club)

@tost yes because if ID is empty then we need to source os-release but if it’s not empty then we can assume it was sourced already

did it like this to not do it like "${ID:-$([ -f /etc/os-release && . /etc/os-release)}"

@tost

if you use $ID after that point, then you lose our on your ID_LIKE preference .

you mean that if i were to change $ID afterwards and run the conditional again then i’d lose the initial value?

if you use $dist after that point, it’s not going to be set if ID is already set .

you’re right, so more code, another conditional, would be needed like: if $ID is already set, then put it to dist=.. which would mask the family in a context where the user already has the environ with $ID=kali, then my code wouldn’t do anything still hmmmm :02think:

mebbe like this?:

@tost @samgai yay we found an even shorter solution! another win for lateral thinking :meow_party:

i learned a lot through the way, all thanks to you :02superblush:

don’t forget to do something like ${ID=$ID_LIKE}

hmmm yea you wrote "${ID:=$ID_LIKE}" originally i’d write "${ID_LIKE:-$ID}“ ie: if ID_LIKE exists use that, bc is the family, if not use ID, because that will be “mommy distro”, and the :- because i don’t want to override ID_LIKE

@tost my brain melty a bit with the way you phrased it! haha

i was familiar with this section and i didn’t use - because if it’s set to empty string it wont expand to the second element, and i wanted that so i used :- (if i got it correctly)

if i’ve got it wrong could u clarify / develop further? <33

@tost what about

only when var doesn’t exist and when file exists, then source the file, then assign family to var