3 Nov
2021
3 Nov
'21
8:45 a.m.
Hi Christopher,
Politics is also a factor and some people are afraid to "step on others' toes" by updating their packages for them.
How it worked in Dept. 1271 at Bell Labs, i.e. where Unix was born and raised, was the last one to touch a program ‘owned it’. So, add an option to grep(1) and folks then came to you for support. Perhaps that's too severe for Arch's maintainers, but an atmosphere of ‘We're all pulling together to keep Arch bleeding edge’ rather than strict ownership might help. Maybe that's already present and just not visible from here. I thought the comparison may help. -- Cheers, Ralph.