On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 20:25:11 -0600, Eli Schwartz wrote: > I myself would dearly love to know what precisely about removing a > discouraged option qualifies as a major change. Maybe the answer depends to the reason, that the discouraged option was provided for some _unknown_ reason. I absolutely agree that dropping --asroot is something we can accept. But I'm likely not the only one who noticed that backwards compatibility became a serious issue for Linux user space software. I mentioned Torvalds, because even he is unable to make clear why some policies are completely wrong. At least he has got the decision-making power not to implement everything into the kernel. If those guys who quote Redhad sources as the one and only truth would have more decision-making power, than Torvalds has got, our kernels would be buggy Redhad ruled things, with broken dbus implementation and other damages. Fortunately the kernel is protected, but user space isn't protect, so IMO we should be noisy when things happen that might be borderline. -- IMO this is one of the oddest statements ever: "Linux has never been about ‘choice’ or ‘freedom’ and those myths should just die out. Read: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-January/msg00861.html"; - http://allanmcrae.com/2014/12/pacman-4-2-released/#comment-1256 Actually I use Linux (kernel and user space software) because it at least _was_ about manifoldness and libre (FLOSS). ^"L" is for libre
