9base in Fedora?

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 02:21:04PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 19:14 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > 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?
> 
> Oh cmon, Matthew, you can't be serious.
> 
> just s/broken/development/ in your above statement and it is obvious.
> 
> people want broken things b/c then they can fix them.

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.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org