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It can't be that much work to maintain a symlink. The idea that it could be less work to remove a standard feature that has been part of Unix for several decade
by colonwqbang 4y ago
It can't be that much work to maintain a symlink. The idea that it could be less work to remove a standard feature that has been part of Unix for several decades, has no connection with reality.
There is no reasonable explanation for this decision except that somebody thought that having both egrep and grep -E was "ugly" according to their own personal sensibilities.
- AshamedCaptain 4y agoAnd this is what I hate from the argument "you can't expect the maintainers to always support the feature". No, I don't. But I do expect them NOT to regularly remove/break the features I have contributed! E.g. I can't count the number of times I have submitted _the_ _same_ _GUI_ _fixes_ to certain popular browser over the decades. Because apparently "they" have to rewrite the chrome of the mobile version from scratch every handful of years. "They" is in quotes because it's, in fairness, never the same person or even the same group of people. It's a CADT. And in this case, to remove what apparently are two small shell scripts which for sure cost more to remove than to preserve....
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