On Thu, Oct 22, 1998 at 07:40:15PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> 
>  The main point are: `Do things in a way that old programs would still
> work.' You can't know what weird setup a user is trying to use, perhaps he
> has a custom CGI script to read manpages, one no debian-developer knows of.
> Perhaps he hacked info to have colors once, and he would like to keep using
> his program.

How can we support every possible custom script? The system changes;
some things will break. Custom scripts will need maintenance; I don't think
that's too unreasonable.


Hamish
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