Re: Fedora proposing to remove X11 Gnome

On Tue, 29 Apr 2025 14:01:30 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:

On 2025-04-29, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

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On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 12:14:33 -0000 (UTC), Borax Man wrote:
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Be careful to discard what you think is useless.

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In the Open Source world, all the old stuff remains preserved in the
commit history of the source repos for all time to come. Nothing ever
really gets thrown away, so yes, it can always be resurrected if need

be.

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With modern programming tools, no editing change is irreversible.

 
I meant more in a general sense, not specifically a code snippet.

Not just “snippets”, the entire old code is there. Also old documentation,
if they chose to include that as well. Nothing gets lost.