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join doesn't follow norms and dies instead of doing something useful w/duplicate options

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Message #32 received at 15157 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Linda Walsh <coreutils <at> tlinx.org>
To: Eric Blake <eblake <at> redhat.com>
Cc: 15127 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>, 15157 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#15127: grep not taking last conflicting option as choice?
Date: Thu, 22 Aug 2013 18:43:05 -0700

Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/22/2013 04:18 PM, Linda Walsh wrote:
>> Isn't the point of software to give users the freedom
>> to make their choices -- to help them do their job?  It's not to enforce
>> a particular mind-think or dogma.
> 
> And the point of free software is that YOU are free to modify the
> software to fit your needs, and share your modifications;
----
Oh, so if I submit patches to fix the problems I've raised, they
will be incorporated?  Or is someone using their position of
source-code maintainer/gatekeeper to implement their own
vision while excluding others?

 not to rant
> that you got something at no price while demanding that someone else fix
> it to meet your whims.  Share patches, rather than rants, and you will
> gain a lot more friends in the world of free software. 
----
	I have shared multiple patches -- having them dropped on the floor
makes me unwilling to submit patches for things that they gatekeepers are
going to unilaterally reject anyway.


> 
> More than 50% of your mail was ranting about the behavior of grep, which
> we already established is NOT part of the coreutils package.
----
    Sorry, I thought the 15127 was the bug that got assigned when I
send the email to the bug-grep reported here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2013-08/msg00017.html

and responded to here:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-grep/2013-08/msg00018.html

It doesn't seem that the grep bug was assigned a bug number, though it
appeared to be rejected and my response was in regards to it.

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