Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
> > You miss my point. Sure he's entitled to them. But why should he
> > *have to have them*? They're extra state which, in the presence
> > of a proper autoconfigurator, he doesn't need.
>
> You have it backwards. The _autoconfigurator_ is extra state which in the
> presence of the config he doesn't need
Oh, come on Alan. You can do better than that.
If Melvin loses the autoconfigurator, there's no state he has to reconstruct.
There will be one exactly like it in the next tarball.
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