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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch
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Mark A. Flacy |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Sep 2003 18:34:30 -0500 |
>>>>> "Andrea" == Andrea Arcangeli <address@hidden> writes:
Andrea>
Andrea>
Andrea> The reason this is obviously not data, is that an user downloading
Andrea> linux-2.4.22.tar.gz pure data package, will have absolutely zero
Andrea> benefits from the tagline embedded in the source, the tagline for
Andrea> this use will be pure _pollution_. Furthmore this user will read
Andrea> the code will see this pollution and he will delete it because it's
Andrea> not data and in turn it's useless to him, and it's only useful to
Andrea> people who cares about tracking the kernel with a revision control
Andrea> system, not him. You certainly don't want to lose the tracking code
Andrea> because of that.
Oh hogwash! Are you REALLY stating that people randomly remove comments
from the kernel source?
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Mark A. Flacy
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, (continued)
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Ethan Benson, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Harald Meland, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Ethan Benson, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Harald Meland, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Ethan Benson, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Harald Meland, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Ethan Benson, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Ethan Benson, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Tom Lord, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch,
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Zack Brown, 2003/09/27
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/09/29
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/29
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Florian Weimer, 2003/09/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Tom Lord, 2003/09/28
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/29
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Tom Lord, 2003/09/29
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: give us a hand with arch, Miles Bader, 2003/09/29