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Date:      Mon, 04 Oct 2004 18:31:58 +0200
From:      des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=)
To:        "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/rm rm.1 rm.c
Message-ID:  <xzpbrfixx4x.fsf@dwp.des.no>
In-Reply-To: <20041004.095311.33209863.imp@bsdimp.com> (M. Warner Losh's message of "Mon, 04 Oct 2004 09:53:11 -0600 (MDT)")
References:  <200410041126.i94BQ273055417@repoman.freebsd.org> <20041004.095311.33209863.imp@bsdimp.com>

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"M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> writes:
> Please back this out.  There's an ungoing discussion and it is far
> from clear that this is a sane idea.  This is really bad committed
> etiquette.

Take a deep breath and a couple of days off, then re-read the so-
called "ongoing discussion".  It is a textbook example of the bikeshed
phenomenon, with hardly a single rational argument.  Furthermore,
there is nothing in it that hasn't already been said over a year ago
on the Austin Group mailing list (except for "Unix is *supposed* to be
hard!"), and the Austin Group concluded that the change was correct,
though outside the scope of a Technical Corrigendum.

In a couple of days, another poor soul will propose another trivial
patch on a mailing list, and we'll all move on to the next bikeshed
and forget we ever argued over this, and it will never come up again
because *nobody will ever be negatively affected by this patch*.  And
in a couple of weeks or months, maybe Giorgios will have gathered
enough courage to actually dare submit a patch for review again; or
maybe he'll just stick to the doc tree, where (almost) nobody ever
argues over anything.

DES
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Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no



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