On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:46 PM, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote: > > > To continue your analogy, should car companies have stopped changing > after the 20s? I mean, the cars then got you were you needed to go, right? The point is to abstract an interface so you can make changes behind it without breaking the things already built around it. You can always add things without breaking anything that already worked for your community of users. If you didn't care about that yourself, you'd be recompiling a gentoo weekly instead of being here. > Things change. You are certainly free to deny that and stay on old > releases, but the world *will* move forward, with or without you. Or around in circles... -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com