<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 22:18, Philip Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:phil@bolthole.com">phil@bolthole.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Ben Walton <<a href="mailto:bwalton@opencsw.org">bwalton@opencsw.org</a>> wrote:<br>
> Excerpts from Philip Brown's message of Fri Feb 26 15:48:01 -0500 2010:<br>
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>> so.... isnt this like gnugetopt or whatever? why do we need/want a<br>
>> clone of that?<br>
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> Why wouldn't we? Is offering the package inherently bad? Choice is<br>
> good! :)<br>
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do you have any idea how many "open source text editors" there are out there?<br>
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choice is NOT always good :)<br>
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[Dagobert wrote]<br>
>It was just released on SFW and I am trying to follow as close as possible.<br>
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Eh.. lets figure out reasons why it should be added?<br>
I'm not saying strictly "no", I'm just saying "lets be clear on why".<br>
That way, if those reasons change or become invalid, then we know it's<br>
okay to ditch it down the road.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>is there a possibility to find out how many debian or ubuntu packages depend on argtable, or which ones?<br><br>rupert.<br><br></div></div><br>