I agree with you on this. People seem to be "too picky" nowadays.

Besides, these people might be used to using GNU `rm', GNU is Not
Unix. ;)

lc...@dcc.ufmg.br writes:

> Lennart Poettering only wrote this message in the thread:
>
> I am not sure I'd consider this much of a problem. Yeah, it's a UNIX
> pitfall, but "rm -rf /foo/.*" will work the exact same way, no?
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5644#issuecomment-290345033
>
> Is that "hysterical"?  If there must be "hysterical grandmas" in that
> thread, they are the haters finding outrageous that Lennart Poettering
> ask a question on the behavior of 'rm -rf /foo/.*' (notice the "no?"
> at the end of his message):
>
> For some people it's advisable to never miss a chance to stay
> silent. (...) Way to highlight how little consideration is being given
> to issues reported by systemd users. Bodes well for the whole
> project!..
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5644#issuecomment-294384461
>
> shocking to hear. no, and you REALLY should know that as many others
> do or AT LEAST test it before pretend such nonsense - frankly
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/5644#issuecomment-294414802
>
> Moreover, Lennart Poeterring is actually right since he was talking
> about UNIX, not GNU/Linux.
>
> Finally, the problem in question was solved the day after it was
> reported:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/commit/ab883125704b9310dcdfcf7451a27e85609da76c
>
> But the solution was improved the day after because Lennart Poeterring
> proposed a better fix:
> https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/5653#issuecomment-290346072
>
> In the end, if there is a "horror story" here, it must have to do with
> Lennart Poettering constantly suffering from haters who do not lose an
> occasion to attack/insult him because he does *not* know everything or
> for no reason at all...
>

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