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I don't know of any such thing getting approval.

Yes, like OpenBSD, things might get grandfathered in. OpenBSD includes `tmux`. Tmux includes bot-assisted commits. I wrote about that too:

https://www.theregister.com/software/2026/05/25/openbsd-79-a...

You are mistaken about what your parent is saying: they're saying that if you want a system untouched by LLMs, you must provide alternatives to those things, because those things have LLM-generated code in them.

And the parent is mistaken (similar to lots of people in this thread) in what this is about. It's about Debian's use of LLM generated code.

Oh, I see what you mean, now. All right: conceded -- that is true.

Yeah, just to be clear, I am not your parent, I just saw Rust mentioned and realized what was going on in this conversation, ha.

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