On Thu, 27 Apr 2006, David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> Agreed. And distributions and library maintainers _will_ fix them. Are
> we to deny those people the tools which will help them to keep track of
> our breakage and submit patches to fix it?
No. As mentioned, as long as the target audience is distributions and
library maintainers, I definitely think we should do help them as much as
possible. Our problems have historically been "random people" who have
/usr/include/linux being the symlink to "kernel source of the day", which
is an unsupportable situation.
(And yes, for a short while back in the early nineties, that symlink was
even the proper thing to do. But exactly because it's unsupportable, it
pretty quickly got to be a "don't do that then", but I still occasionally
hear from people who use bad distributions).
Linus
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