On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 11:34 -0400, Kristian Høgsberg wrote:

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> 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.
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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre

David.Woodhouse@intel.com                              Intel Corporation
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