[GRASSGUI] Re: [GRASS-dev] d.rast still noisy

[Michael Barton]

OK. I understand your and Hamish's points. It just seems I'm being warned
that I'm doing what I intended to do. But others may do the same thing
unintentionally, hence the warning.

Michael


On 3/22/07 10:06 PM, "Glynn Clements" <glynn at gclements.plus.com> wrote:

> 
> Michael Barton wrote:
> 
>>>> d.rast is still noisy, even with the quiet flag. Can we turn this
>>>> stuff off somehow?
>>>> 
>>>> d.rast agro_soils --q
>>>> WARNING: 'cell/agro_soils' was found in more mapsets (also found in
>>>> user1).
>>>> WARNING: using 'agro_soils at PERMANENT'.
>>> 
>>> WARNINGs are not affected by verbosity controls. The above warning is
>>> there for a reason, as you have requested an ambiguous action.
>> 
>> This is not an ambiguous action.
> 
> Only in the sense that, ultimately, all actions are unambiguous,
> insofar as that they have a concrete end result.
> 
> OTOH, the action may well have non-obvious consequences, which is
> probably a more useful classification than whether or not it is
> ambiguous.
> 
>> I'm picking the version of the file in the
>> current mapset. For that, it is unnecessary to specify the mapset.
> 
> Incorrect.
> 
> If you want the version which comes first in the mapset search path,
> then it's unnecessary to specify the mapset. The current mapset
> doesn't have to be the first one in the search path; that's just the
> default if you don't specify an explicit search path.
> 
>> So what if there is another file with the same name in another
>> mapset?
> 
> That file may well have been the one which you intended to use.
> 
>> I may have 10
>> files with that name in different places. What does this matter. If I want
>> to pick any file outside the current mapset, I should specify it.
> 
> You are free to set an explicit search path containing only the
> current mapset (and not PERMANENT), but that isn't the default. The
> default is the current mapset followed by PERMANENT. If you set a
> search path which only contains one mapset (e.g. the current mapset),
> you will never get more than one match for an unqualified name, and
> thus will never see the warning.

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Arizona State University

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