On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 19:35 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:21:04PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 19:14 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > If they're used to plan9, they'll presumably want these in their path.
> > If they're in their path, other utilities are going to misbehave in ways
> > that will be difficult to debug. Why would someone choose to have a
> > broken system?
>
> Oh cmon, Matthew, you can't be serious.
>
> just s/broken/development/ in your above statement and it is obvious.
>
> people want broken things b/c then they can fix them.
If I get a bug complaining that something doesn't work because the user
is using plan9 awk rather than gnu awk, they're going to get very firmly
NOTABUGged. I hardly think I'm alone here.
I think that's completely appropriate.
But does that mean the pkg should stay out of the distro?
-sv