GNU bug report logs - #15127
grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?

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Package: coreutils;

Reported by: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>

Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:52:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #30 received at 15127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
Cc: 15127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 15157 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:27:57 -0700
On 08/22/13 15:18, Linda Walsh wrote:

>     Why is it that some people use their positions to modify
> widely used source as a chance to implement power-over and domination
> over other people?

That doesn't describe what happened, and this sort of rhetoric
doesn't help to improve free software.  You might want to
try rephrasing that email in terms that are less inflammatory,
so that it's more likely to be read and acted on.  I stopped
reading after the above comment.





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