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On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 04:17:54PM -0700, Cary Jamison wrote:
>Phil Edwards wrote:
>> I'm aware of the restrictions, and I will bet long odds that spaces
>> show up in filenames far more often than colons (or any other
>> punctuation commonly used as a separator in pathname lists) are used.
>> I've not changed my opinion that updatedb is behind the times and is
>> needlessly complicating things for admins, but I also don't expect
>> that opinion to change anybody else's mind -- this bug has been
>> reported before, against other distros, and gets rejected because "you
>> shouldn't use spaces in filenames under Linux," how quaint.
>
>This opinion by Linux users has to change if they want Linux to become a 
>more mainstream os.  Everyday users are going to use spaces in filenames 
>through the Linux desktop, just as it has become more common on the Windows 
>desktop.
>
><$.02

Personally,Idon'treallyunderstandwhatthebigdealishere.
cgf

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