Re: [PATCH v1 20/25] contrib: remove 'contacts'

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brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Thu, May 08, 2014 at 07:58:31PM -0500, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> > There are better out-of-tree tools, and this tool is not planned to move
> > into the core anyway.
> 
> I have used this once or twice, and I have seen others indicate their
> use of it as well.  I am not volunteering to maintain this, but if it is
> working reasonably well for people (as it appears to be), I don't see a
> reason to remove it.

If all it took as qualification for contrib is that "somebody" uses it,
contrib would be festered by tools that right now live out-of-tree.

The reasons why some tools are not dropped from contrib, and others are
rejected to contrib are completely arbitrary.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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