On Sun, Jan 4, 2015 at 8:16 PM, Doug Newgard <scimmia@archlinux.info> wrote:
Yeah, it's not like sed options are defined by POSIX or anything...
Your entire problem here seems to be that you don't like the development style of pacman. In that case, get involved instead of just whining about it after the fact. It's been well known that this has been coming for over 9 months.
And for the record, I have see problem making relatively minor changes like this with a minor release. If you think it's a problem, you're going to need a better argument that "it's common sense". What you see as common sense, I see as arbitrary and artificial restrictions for no good reason.
I myself would dearly love to know what precisely about removing a discouraged option qualifies as a major change. -- Eli Schwartz