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

Jean Delvare wrote:

On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:50:25 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:

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At Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:23:49 +0200,
Jean Delvare wrote:

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On Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:59:58 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:

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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.

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.)

I just can't think of any other tool which installs over 100 binaries
(or scripts, that's the same) in /usr/bin. Can you?

netpbm has almost 300 in /usr/bin.

Ouch. (I guess I shouldn't have asked.)

Does netpbm do anything convert (ImageMagick) doesn't? I'd be happy to
get rid of netpbm.

netpbm-progs (the rpm containing all the 320 programs in /usr/bin) is
required for xmlto to function properly, which in turn is necessary
to build the git documentation.

This is on Fedora 9, btw.

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