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Re: [PATCH] Add --print-dirs option for ldconfig
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at systemhalted dot org>
- Cc: Dan Nicholson <dbn dot lists at gmail dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 09:47:44 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add --print-dirs option for ldconfig
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> What's your take on this? I have little experience here, but it seems
> like this is trivial enough to do without copyright. There is really
> only one way to add an option, and only one way to list the already
> present strings. The change doesn't seem to meet any standard of
> originality as required by copyright.
The change is trivial enough. Nonetheless, when there's a contributor
willing to do assignment paperwork, it never hurts to have it. But given
the size of this change, it doesn't need to wait for the paperwork to
actually be complete before we put it in.
Thanks,
Roland