Re: GECOS expansion

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20080709082027.GA807%colwyn.zhadum.org.uk@localhost>,
Matthias Scheler  <tron%zhadum.org.uk@localhost> wrote:
>
>       Hello,
>
>NetBSD's Samba package contains a lot patches (which make updating the
>package very hard) to support GECOS expansion(*).
>
>I personally think that this is a really useless feature and it should
>be removed because it only creates compatibility problems.
>
>What do other people think about this?
>
>       Kind regards
>
>(*) See description of "&" in the gecos field in passwd(5).

It has been there for ~30 years. How will remving the documentation from
the manual page fix the problem?

christos