Re: [PATCH] Prevent redundancy in 'uname -a' (w/ChangeLog)

[Paul Eggert]

I dunno, that patch looks a little weird to me, as it causes "-a" to
behave non-orthogonally with respect to the -o option (i.e., -o is
treated differently from -s/-n/-r/-v/-m/-p/-i).  Also, I suppose it
might break some software that parses "uname -a" output (any such
software is unportable, but we'd rather not break it anyway...).

What's the motivation for the change?