Re:Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later)
by jolmg on Friday July 10, 2020 @05:40PM
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It's not sabotaging. It's removing support.
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Re:Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later)
by mumblemumble on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:10PM
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Back in the day, that's roughly how web developers would frame it when they tried to rationalize making websites that would deliberately refuse to load if the user-agent said something other than "MSIE".
Removing support is a passive action; you accomplish it by just doing nothing. Calling exit() is rather more on the aggressive side.
All that said, good on 'em. I got a decent chuckle.
Re:Mpv drops GNOME support (reverted later)
by NewEntryHN on Friday July 10, 2020 @06:56PM
(#23797554)
> Removing support is a passive action; you accomplish it by just doing nothing. Calling exit() is rather more on the aggressive side.
It's more graceful than the program exiting in a bad way because you passively decided to stop support.