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Nicholas Clark
Date:
November 28, 2010 11:51
Subject:
Re: [PATCH] deprecate ?PATTERN?
Message ID:
20101128195058.GT24189@plum.flirble.org
On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 02:45:57PM -0500, Andy Dougherty wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:21:34PM +0100, Steffen Schwigon wrote:
> > 
> > > Just an opinion from a user:
> > > 
> > > Please avoid deprecations. Always.
> > 
> > Your explanation of the problems is valid, but you can avoid the deprecations
> > by not upgrading.
> > 
> > Why did you upgrade your systems to 5.12?
> 
> Sometimes the user doesn't have a choice.

I realise this. But in this case, he did choose to.

And his request was not "please minimise" but instead "never".

Hence why I was curious about the motivation.

Nicholas Clark
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