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Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message.
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Richard Stallman |
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Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message. |
Date: |
Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:48:33 -0500 |
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Your argument is based on a goal, uniformity, that is merely
desirable -- not important.
It is good to make things parallel, when there is no reason to do
otherwise. We think about uniformity so that we don't careelessly
make things non-parallel.
But that's never important enough to change something
which is the way it is for a real reason.
> > So that sysadmins will think twice before disabling the message for
> > their users.
> Are there sites that disable the message?
I found out about one; that's why I added that code.
As to how many there are, I don't know. It is not worth the trouble
to find out. That code works, and it causes no trouble to anyone
_except_ a sysadmin who wants to disable that message for other people.
I'm explaining the reasons for this code so people will
understand. We're not going to change the code.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org)
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- [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message., Mark Oteiza, 2015/12/19
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- Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/23
- Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message., Richard Stallman, 2015/12/25
- Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message., Random832, 2015/12/24
Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/12/20