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From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
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I wrote:
> Yeah... "Infinitely extendable API" and all such. Roughly translated
> as "we can't live without API bloat". Frankly, judging by the GNOME
> codebase people who designed the thing are culturally incompatible with
> UNIX.

	Hrrm. After rereading... I suspect that I wasn't clear enough -
s/thing/GNOME/. IOW, the comment applies to shining example of (ab)use
of mechanism.

PS: apologies for crossposting that in the first place - I ought to look
at the Cc. Sorry.

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