9base in Fedora?

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed May 25 18:53:17 UTC 2011


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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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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