Re: Confused by y-or-n-p

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > My proposal will help with that problem too.  Instead of waiting for a
  > > resolution of the dispute, we should install the change with a user
  > > option variable to enable the new behavior.

  > That is already happening where the change seems to be controversial
  > or a too radical departure from long-time behavior.

That's good.  But it suggests that the spectre of "interminable
dispute" has been exaggerated.  If people are getting tired of
a dispute, they will get behind the solution of "install it with
an option" and we will go ahead with that.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org)
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org)
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