From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Mark Oteiza <mvoteiza@udel.edu>
Cc: johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message.
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2015 00:48:33 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1aCLEv-00025h-Mp@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20151224014122.GA19782@holos> (message from Mark Oteiza on Wed, 23 Dec 2015 20:41:22 -0500)
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Your argument is based on a goal, uniformity, that is merely
desirable -- not important.
It is good to make things parallel, when there is no reason to do
otherwise. We think about uniformity so that we don't careelessly
make things non-parallel.
But that's never important enough to change something
which is the way it is for a real reason.
> > So that sysadmins will think twice before disabling the message for
> > their users.
> Are there sites that disable the message?
I found out about one; that's why I added that code.
As to how many there are, I don't know. It is not worth the trouble
to find out. That code works, and it causes no trouble to anyone
_except_ a sysadmin who wants to disable that message for other people.
I'm explaining the reasons for this code so people will
understand. We're not going to change the code.
--
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-25 5:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-19 22:51 [PATCH] Remove special requirement to disable startup message Mark Oteiza
2015-12-20 5:13 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-22 18:41 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-22 19:39 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-24 1:41 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-25 5:48 ` Richard Stallman [this message]
2015-12-25 16:24 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-23 5:10 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-24 1:41 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-24 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-25 5:48 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-24 5:07 ` Random832
2015-12-20 15:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 19:09 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-22 19:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-24 1:49 ` Mark Oteiza
2015-12-24 3:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-07 0:08 ` Phillip Lord
2016-01-07 0:38 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-07 3:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
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