Follow-up Comment #6, bugs #12044 (project findutils):
Regarding the fragility of OS version checks:
It is well accepted now that OS version checks
are a maintenance nightmare. The "configure revolution"
of relying as much as possible on feature tests, either
at compile time or run time has been a vast improvement.
Compare the convoluted version checks that still litter
emacs configuration code.
One nice free software property is forkability.
If I create Martix, which is identical to Linux
except for the string returned by uname -s,
how many things will stop working or will work less well
in some very subtle way?
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