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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by Sanddancer on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:49PM (#11341518)
You have the same amount of choice. There's no reason that you have to use the other hundred pieces of the package. In the Unix world, there's nothing precluding you from deciding to use the FreeBSD version of tar but keeping the rest of the GNU utilities there.
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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by Klathmon on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @09:56PM (#11341551)
I guess it's a philosophical difference.

But to be fair this would have the same outcome if left-pad were part of a library that included another 50+ libs (that he also wrote and published, and subsequently un-published today).

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