Tuesday, August 04, 2020

Re: rsync: update to 3.2.2

Todd C. Miller <Todd.Miller@sudo.ws> wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Aug 2020 12:19:49 -0600, "Theo de Raadt" wrote:
>
> > This is totally ridiculous.
> >
> > Who is served by all these extra features? Didn't it work before?
> > Is it suddenly MANDATORY to have all these features?
>
> Wow, that's crazy. Can we have a "bloated" flavor instead so
> everyone is not subjected to this nonsense?

A word to describe this situation: Tasteless.

I'm going to guess some numbers:

Less than 0.01% of people need that extra garbage.
Maybe 1% of people may occasionally want some of it.

99% of people just want rsync to work minimal.

20% of people are probably harmed by that extra baggage.

It is diametrically opposed to the idea of keeping things
as simple as they need to be.

It makes me angry that 1 or 2 people can impose such excessive baggage
on everyone.

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