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diff --git a/sys-apps/textutils/files/textutils-2.0.21-gentoo.diff b/sys-apps/textutils/files/textutils-2.0.21-gentoo.diff deleted file mode 100644 index 7fe033552c82..000000000000 --- a/sys-apps/textutils/files/textutils-2.0.21-gentoo.diff +++ /dev/null @@ -1,36 +0,0 @@ ---- coreutils.texi Sat Dec 8 11:13:57 2001 -+++ coreutils.texi.new Mon Mar 18 05:34:18 2002 -@@ -10614,33 +10614,6 @@ - - @end table - --@cindex wheel group, not supported --@cindex group wheel, not supported --@cindex fascism --@heading Why GNU @code{su} does not support the @samp{wheel} group -- --(This section is by Richard Stallman.) -- --@cindex Twenex --@cindex MIT AI lab --Sometimes a few of the users try to hold total power over all the --rest. For example, in 1984, a few users at the MIT AI lab decided to --seize power by changing the operator password on the Twenex system and --keeping it secret from everyone else. (I was able to thwart this coup --and give power back to the users by patching the kernel, but I --wouldn't know how to do that in Unix.) -- --However, occasionally the rulers do tell someone. Under the usual --@code{su} mechanism, once someone learns the root password who --sympathizes with the ordinary users, he or she can tell the rest. The --``wheel group'' feature would make this impossible, and thus cement the --power of the rulers. -- --I'm on the side of the masses, not that of the rulers. If you are --used to supporting the bosses and sysadmins in whatever they do, you --might find this idea strange at first. -- -- - @node Delaying - @chapter Delaying - |