On 29 March 2017 at 15:17, Nikolai Kondrashov <nkondras@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> Getting rid of using env is much more legacy related things

> Most of them comes from the the time when Solaris and other flavours of the Unixes where the dominant Unix on the market.

Well, my concern was mostly

Don't worry about this. Today AIX and Solaris is more similar to the typical Linux than it was ~20 years ago.

All those Unixes are around and they will be for next +two decades.

On introduce Solaris 10 was added set of deep changes allowing all admins easier switching between different flavours of Ubnixes.

Some of those changes as well are migrating to the Linuxes as well.

Maintaining today growing set of similarities is matter of customers needs that "making My(tm) Unix exceptional" in exactly this context.

> Many source trees maintainers which started own projects even recently coped base set of system detections where adding -lnsl to LIBS
> was present. All such issues should be not fixed by something similar to plastering ..

I agree, using -lnsl needlessly is bad. However, I suspect we might still need
to keep it around for quite a while. Again, to help those programs that
actually use it.

Who is proposing to remove NIS/NIS+/YP support from Fedora?

(Definitely not me .. and it is second time today here when someone is interpreting my "can we please change it?" as "can we ban it?" 8-P )

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