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cvanpelt

Feature-creep is bad enough. Feature-creep with entirely pointless features is worse. Feature-creep with entirely impossible features… well, leave that to GNU.

gnurm

Why? Probably some crap about being able to avoid input sanitation for rm commands called from shell scripts as root. Wait? Does that make sense? No! Then why? Probably because someone some day might yell "Holy shit! I almost accidentally the whole root! Thank a deity I remembered to add the –preserve-root option instead of the –no-preserve-root option!". We can only hope the monkey next to him will have reproduced the works of Shakespeare by that time.

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By cvanpelt – September 3, 2009

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  1. pwgen – Software Bashing linked to this post on September 11, 2009

    [...] which is already turned on by default! That should come in handy. Not. Guess it's not just GNU that likes redundant options. Alright then, mofo's. I'll check the manual [...]

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