From: David Woodhouse Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:59:58 GMT Subject: Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins Message-ID: <1219766398.7107.87.camel@pmac.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1219764860.4471.13.camel@gaara.bos.redhat.com> On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:34 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote: > It's pretty normal to see opponents of a decision like this complain > loudly when it lands on their system, whereas the silent majority in > favour will be happy to see the change finally implemented but reluctant > to stir up the discussion again. > > I don't think new arguments are brought to the discussion, just new > people, who are temporarily inconvened by a change towards sanity. Nice emotive response, especially the subtle but unsubstantiated 'silent majority in favour' bit -- but you forgot the part where you were supposed to actually point out a tangible benefit which is achieved by breaking compatibility like this. And no, reducing the size of /usr/bin by a tiny fraction isn't really a worthwhile benefit -- in reality, the 'silent majority' really couldn't give a monkey's left testicle about that, and breakage caused by the gratuitous change _far_ outweighs any minuscule improvement. It's particularly silly because we could have just made these aliases optional but present by default, so those few nutters who _really_ spend their days worrying about such stuff can do without them. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation