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[Coleman Kane]

On Wed, 2008-06-04 at 23:47 -0700, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
> Coleman Kane wrote:
> > Using your argument above about scripts written for release X+1 not
> > working under release X means that the addition of "-a" to /bin/cp
> > should also be reverted, as well as numerous other changes that have
> > happened to CLI tools like ifconfig. There are probably at least
> 
> Coleman,
> 
> You either don't understand what I have written or trying to play trick 
> with my words. I am not talking about adding new options for new 
> functionality, which is good and fine, but rather about massive addition 
> of long options as a synonyms to existing short ones, which we have seen 
> in this case. That's why  I largely see this change as a superfluous and 
> potentially harmful.
> 
> -Maxim
> 

The cp "-a" option is a synonym (for -R -p -P), which many consider to
be superfluous, and is why our cp lasted so long without it. The option
was added to GNU file-utils cp, and is also used by rsync and probably
other tools that I am forgetting. So, no new functionality.

It doesn't bother me personally, I just wanted to point it out.

-- 
Coleman Kane
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