cvs commit: src/bin/rm rm.1 rm.c

[Garance A Drosihn]

At 6:31 PM +0200 10/4/04, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
>"M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> writes:
>  > Please back this out.  There's an ungoing discussion and it is
>  > far from clear that this is a sane idea.  This is really bad
>  > committed etiquette.
>
>Take a deep breath and a couple of days off, then re-read
>the so-called "ongoing discussion".  It is a textbook example of
>the bikeshed phenomenon, with hardly a single rational argument.

There were some ration arguments.  Few of the rational arguments
were for making this change.  I'd say back this change out.  I
would rather that we do nothing than we allow one committer to
unilaterally decide when *he* thinks something is "a bikeshed",
and therefore preempt the discussion from other developers.

>Furthermore, there is nothing in it that hasn't already been said
>over a year ago on the Austin Group mailing list

Did the Austin group include my suggestion?  Or did you even notice
my suggestion?  Or did you notice that several people liked my
suggestion, except that it required more work than this simple
change?

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
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Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu