Adrian Bunk wrote, On 11/27/2007 11:53 PM:

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> On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 11:15:48PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
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> Most Google hits are about abortion.
> 
> The fact that people use this term in some completely different 
> context does not give it the meaning you implied it had.
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> Oh, and this right of choice also does not exist in Poland...


Anyway, your later arguments could suggest you've understood,

what I've meant. And maybe abortion isn't bad association here...

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> As one of the most active code removers in the kernel [1], I can tell 
> you what actually happens in practice:

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> It's always surprising how many people complain when you deprecate or 

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> remove a choice B that choice A wouldn't work for them, and who had 
> never reported their problems before since choice B worked for them...


Of course, all these choices should be reasonably limited, so the
opinions of users and maintainers should be always considered.

But, I was rather against something else: removing some maybe not very
popular, but still not buggy options, only to save a few kilobytes or
maintainers' time.

 
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> [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/247582/


My congratulations! Of course, removing is something necessary, but I wish

you many problems! (== many users)

Thanks,
Jarek P.
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