Re: [bug-inetutils] [PATCH] Removing ORIGINAL_SOURCE

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   >    After doing this, is the function string_to_flags from
   >    libls/stat_flags.c still necessary? It is also not being called
   >    from anywhere.
   >
   >  Please don't remove it, it can be useful in the future.

   Blech, that's an awful reason to keep something around.  If it were
   universally useful, it would be in some major library.

   I'd simply say YAGNI, and get rid of any code that's not being used.
   If we turn out to be wrong, that's what revision control is for.

I would agree with you _IFF_ the code was in a utility, the code is in
a library.