Just because a program is considered deprecated or obsolete by a standards committee, is no reason to actually force that program out of use or availablity. And since when does GNU adhere strictly to POSIX anyway?
So my bug report is this: fgrep and egrep should not emit any warning on stderr about being obsolescent unless the environment POSIXLY_CORRECT is set. If you want to be *really* pedantic, it shouldn't emit a warning unless POSIXLY_CORRECT is set to the specific standards level (or above) in which it was declared obsolete. :-P Because goddammit, there are 40 years worth of old programs out there that are going to keep using egrep, and as a crusty 50+ year old myself, I'm not planning to train my fingers out of using it either. Just let some things *be*.
