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Rick \"Zero_Chaos\" Farina posted on Fri, 14 Sep 2012 19:43:42 -0400 as |
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> If anyone wants to explain to me why that DESCRIPTION line is so |
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> critical that it must exist yet not important enough to put something |
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> worthwhile in I'm all ears. Until that point I'll probably keep bringing |
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> this up. |
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Did you read the up-thread link Ciaran posted? |
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http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/78813/ |
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IOW, it's legacy. They could probably "disappear", if anybody was |
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willing to spend the time investigating, then fixing anything that broke |
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when the lines "disappeared". But it's simply easier to go with "don't |
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fix what's not broken", and just leave it be. Let someone else take that |
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risk. |
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But as long as any breakage "magically disappeared" to wherever the |
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DESCRIPTIONs went, I don't expect there'd be many complaints... |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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