9base in Fedora?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 01:42:02PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 18:41 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 12:56:25PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 17:52 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > > What would cause someone to choose to use these tools rather than the 
> > > > ones that exist in Fedora already?
> > > 
> > > They come from an environment where plan9 is more commonly used and want
> > > to preserve the behaviors they know/like?
> > 
> > Putting them in your path's just going to break things.
> > 
> 
> 'just going to break things' is the criteria, now?

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?

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