Re: [kernel.org users] [RFD] On deprecating "git-foo" for builtins

From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@kernel.org>
Date: Aug 26, 2008, 20:14 UTC
Message-ID: <48B46443.6000800@kernel.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080826182349.0a1a75e2@hyperion.delvare>

Jean Delvare wrote:

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> Reducing /usr/bin in size was totally worthwhile. Maybe not to you, but
> to the silent majority I am a proud member of, it was. (I'm not saying
> that the path that was taken to get there was optimal, just that the
> goal was sound.)
>

You keep trying to use the Nixon argument ("silent majority.") You *do* know that it was a rhetorical device used by Nixon's speechwriters to push ahead with policies despite compact opposition, don't you?

As far as I can tell, most of the arguments in favour came from fanbois of $OTHER_SCM which went along the lines of "why does git need all this stuff in /usr/bin, when $OTHER_SCM doesn't?" It had nothing to do with reality, of course; it was just a difference between git and $OTHER_SCM which they choose to pick on.

	-hpa