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Christopher Faylor wrote:
> 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.

Fortunately, we don't need to debate the issue here since it's an
upstream problem so it's off-topic.

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A: Yes.
 > Q: Are you sure?
 >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
 >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

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