On Sat, Apr 22, 2023 at 08:16:01PM +0200, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote: > I don’t know why you think so. There is a real cost to maintaining > software. Who is going to keep track of security issues? What about changes > to libraries you are linking to? Unless you are stepping up to maintain the > software, I think deprecating software is not only fine but necessary to > maintain security and quality.
grep -E and grep -F are not going away, and egrep and fgrep are symlinks to grep that simply operate as grep -E and grep -F by default. There is zero maintainance work involved. But apparently someone involved with GNU grep decided some 15 years ago that these commands only existed because originally on unix fgrep and egrep were seperate binaries and that since that wasn't true anymore, they must be removed, because reasons. Seems like a change for the sake of making a change. -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
