On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:39:16PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 19:35 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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?
I don't think we should be shipping anything unless there's an
expectation that using it in the intended manner won't break unrelated
software.
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