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Eamon Caddigan said: |
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> Argumentum ad antiquitam. I'm aware of many good arguments for keeping |
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> 'rm' the way it is, but "because it's always been that way" isn't the |
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> strongest. :) |
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It is if it breaks compatablility with scripts and old people (aparently |
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there actually is people older then 20 on #gentoo :O ) |
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> As for nonstandard options, that's exactly what I propose. Appealing to |
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> tradition myself, I should point out that Linux has a rich history of |
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> adding nonstandard options to ancient UNIX commands. |
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I think your talking about the GNU project, not Linux, and the GNU project |
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is making the whole system their way, from the userland tools to the |
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kernel, something that gentoo is certainly not doing. |
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