Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:40:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/21093: New option for restore (patch) Message-ID: <200009071840.LAA85287@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/21093; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> Cc: Stefan Moeding <s.moeding@ndh.net>, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/21093: New option for restore (patch) Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2000 11:30:57 -0700 (PDT) > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 09:30:03AM -0700, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > IMO, this is not sufficient enough reason to add the feature. > > I agree with Matt. If X feature does not require complex scripts, it's > probably not going to be added to Y program (see df -c, etc.). If there were some overriding other reason, like, "Amanda needs it", or "PicoBSD needs it and doesn't like to run subshells", or "subshells are bad", I could go for it. It's a trivial change. But, especially for dump (which should Die! Die! Die!), creeping featurism probably should be avoided. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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