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

Jean Delvare wrote:

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