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by emmelaich 5071 days ago
I've only used -R, because of it's posixness. Finger memory from adminning Solaris.

Not to say that this is a good or bad change.

-R matches the -R in chown/chgrp

They should really introduce -r for those two to NOT follow symlinks. Following symlinks for those is bad.