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Mike Frysinger wrote: |
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> On Friday 15 July 2005 06:56 pm, Herbert Fischer wrote: |
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>>Thanks... I saw that "bug" and saw that it is very old (from 2002) and |
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>>nothing was done. Did you know why? |
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> hmm, us baselayout guys have discussed it before, but i guess we've never |
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> posted to the bug |
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> the only thing we really have against it is the potential of developer |
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> abuse ... that is, we feel that ebuild authors should *never* install a file |
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> there, it should only ever contain files created by the user |
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> -mike |
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Does the risk of abuse outweigh the potential usefulness that much? My |
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vote would be to do more of this sort of thing. Reducing the |
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oppertunity for users to shoot themselves in the foot would be good. |
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speeking of shooting feet, it's be a pretty interesting statistic to see |
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how many times people have borked their system by accidently replacing |
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their fstab :-P |
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Michael Marineau |
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marineam@g.o |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |
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Oregon State University |
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