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[Zack Weinberg]

"Joseph S. Myers" <jsm@polyomino.org.uk> writes:

> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, Zack Weinberg wrote:
>
>> This is a bug in coreutils 5.0.  Report it to the coreutils
>> maintainers.  These "obsolete" command line options must continue to
>> be supported.
>
> That doesn't mean we can't also use more portable alternatives in GCC (as
> in <http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-bugs/2002-02/msg00516.html>)

Nope - as noted downthread, the "portable alternatives" are not
supported by some systems we support.

> I noticed
> <http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/autoconf-patches/2004-01/msg00005.html>
> and hope that coreutils isn't now going to disallow "rm -rf" as well.

The followup suggests not.

zw