woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) writes:
> BTW, who exactly made such a questionable decision without asking for
> input from the users (I'm certain I wouldn't have missed such a
> discussion, though I admit I've not scanned the mailing list archives to
> see if the question was cleverly hidden from all us Unix radicals).

Since when is "we're going to make a utility which has supported
certain options for N years in our system continue to support them
when we move to a new version of the utility" a "questionable
decision," especially when it's fairly easy to do that?

People care about backward compatiblity with what they've been using
in shell scripts and on the command line for 5 years.

Maybe _you've_ not been using those options, but they've been
documented and part of the system, and people have been using them.
If you really hate wasting the "bloat" of them, then by all means,
#ifdef them out of your copy of the source...  However, don't force
the incompatibliity on all of the rest of the users of the system.



cgd
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