9base in Fedora?

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 19:35 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.
> 

I think that's completely appropriate.

But does that mean the pkg should stay out of the distro?

-sv