Jean Delvare wrote:
Reducing /usr/bin in size was totally worthwhile. Maybe not to you, but to the silent majority I am a proud member of, it was. (I'm not saying that the path that was taken to get there was optimal, just that the goal was sound.)
You keep trying to use the Nixon argument ("silent majority.") You *do* know that it was a rhetorical device used by Nixon's speechwriters to push ahead with policies despite compact opposition, don't you?
As far as I can tell, most of the arguments in favour came from fanbois of $OTHER_SCM which went along the lines of "why does git need all this stuff in /usr/bin, when $OTHER_SCM doesn't?" It had nothing to do with reality, of course; it was just a difference between git and $OTHER_SCM which they choose to pick on.
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