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Re: Bug#224509: [PROPOSAL] Correct spurious promise regarding TTY availability



On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 06:50:46PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
> That said, I don't think it's a good idea to do this. Many packages
> depend on having a controlling tty available, and aren't buggy since
> current policy allows it. Changing that would make all those packages
> instantly buggy, which should be avoided if at all possible (and it most
> certainly is possible)

That rationale only works when policy is empirically correct.

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