On 27.04.25 14:18, Marc Haber wrote:
At least not enouch space to waste any more life time on it.
Owch. That's one way to look at it, but it does seem that it's not really conductive to your emotional well-being.
Look at it another way. Quite a few admin scripts, both in /var/lib/dpkg/info and not, use adduser, presumably because it did something no other tool did at the time. Thus, IMHO you can safely assume that you spent much less time on it than your collective users saved, as they utilized adduser instead of re-inventing some wheels (or the bits and pieces of them that they needed).
I'd count that as a win in my book.The work people did on CVS and SVN and HG and whatnot didn't go down the drain either, when git took over the world. People used them. They added value. Yes, in 2025 it's probably not a good idea to set up a new SVN repository, and there's probably not much point in working on improving its code *now*, but that's a different problem.
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