On Mon, 03 May 2004 09:58:30 +0300, mjt@nysv.org (Markus =?UNKNOWN?Q?T=F6rnqvist?=) said: > It's really quite a shame that the best distro around is so rigid > as to not allow Reiser's minor, and understandable, addition in > his licensing. The idiomatic phrase for this is "slippery slope" - it's much easier (and morally justifiable) to draw a hard line and and say "everybody on that side of the line goes in non-free" without exceptions. If you accept Hans' "minor addition", then you get to fight the "but *my* minor addition isn't much bigger than Hans', why can't *my* stuff go in free too?" fight for every single package. And I will advance the suggestion that the entire "We don't care how many users we have, we will stick to the highest principles no matter what" philosophy is a large part of *WHY* Debian is the sort of distribution it is. Yes, they probably *could* be less rigid about this issue. But then they'd lose a large part of what makes Debian be Debian, rather than some other distribution... > Wouldn't mkfs -f > /dev/null be adequate suppression? Redirecting to /dev/null at the time you *MOST* want to be paying very close attention to everything that's output... Bad idea. :)
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