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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by esailija on Wednesday March 23, 2016 @03:15AM (#11342657)
Even getting a response just so you can know what the original author desires can take a long time and there is no warranties or guarantees that you will even get any response. To me, all the downsides that come with dependencies are not even close to worth it for saving 15 seconds.
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Re:I've Just Liberated My Modules by karmelapple on Sunday April 03, 2016 @04:53AM (#11415447)
Who cares what the original author desires?

If you fixed the bad behavior you're experiencing, and the original author's effort saved you hours or days of coding, what's the downside?

Perhaps I'm not arguing for 15 second long code changes. But other than typing a single if statement, what takes literally less than one minute to securely change in any partially-complex project?

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