On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 08:47:40AM -0500, Jon Ciesla wrote:
That may be (both are human constructs, it's like say "hey,
that's made up
word!", but no, I don't. My point is simply that while it is extremely
silly code, it is in fact code provided by upstream. It's still
maintained, is of a valid license, and I don't see a valid reason to break
with upstream here. If you can convince upstream to split it out or drop
it, great.
That's simple, I'm upstream maintainer. The command has been disabled
by default in the last stable release. And yes, one I day I'll drop it...
If not, and there isn't a compelling disk space or security
argument, I really don't see why this should be dropped. I'm looking for
a clear example of demonstrable harm. It's 14k of silliness, not a
rootkit.
- it's joke rather than anything useful
- it's installed on all systems, but almost nobody uses this crap
Karel
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