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Date:      Mon, 30 Sep 2002 18:12:52 -0700
From:      "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/include Makefile getopt.h src/lib/libc/stdlib Makefile.inc getopt_long.3 getopt_long.c
Message-ID:  <20021001011252.GB82611@dragon.nuxi.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020930104952.GQ9330@starjuice.net>
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On Mon, Sep 30, 2002 at 12:49:52PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote:
> Could you live with this policy:
> 
> 	Tools in the base system may only use getopt_long to provide
> 	functionality offered in previously released versions of the
> 	base system.
> 
> I think that as long as we constrain ourselves to using this for
> backward compatibility, we should be okay.

I could live with it if the committer had actually made everything in the
base tree that uses getopt_long, actually use the new version in libc.

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