Linus Was Right, Never Break Userspace

Recently this Reddit post was floating around about deprecated functionality in grep, specifically fgrep and egrep and whether it's ever ok to actually break this old but widely used functionality

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Reddit Post:   / the_deprecation_madness_must_stop_but_it_wont  
SCO Xenix: https://www.scosales.com/ta/kb/105933...
Removed Utilities: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs...
Patch Creation: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport...
Grep 3.8: https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/in...
Greb Docs: https://www.gnu.org/software/grep/man...
Undeprecate: https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport...

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