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From: Jason Wever <weeve@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www/apache testing request (marking stable anytime soon)
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 18:07:02
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.62.0504111205170.15326@stargazer.weeve.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] net-www/apache testing request (marking stable anytime soon) by Stuart Herbert
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4 On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Stuart Herbert wrote:
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6 > Jason Wever wrote:
7 > | And why would we not want to present the default Apache index.html to our
8 > | users?
9 >
10 > Installing anything as a default page into /var/www/localhost/htdocs/ is
11 > dangerous. If the Apache install is an upgrade, the default page could
12 > quite easily break someone's working website.
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14 That could be handled via some CONFIG_PROTECT foo (unless someone has a
15 more suitable method in mind)
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17 > I haven't looked at the new page myself (yet), but I hope that
18 >
19 > a) it's only installed if a local USE flag is enabled, and
20 > b) that it's tasteful and contains useful "Getting Started" material
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22 The new page is part of a whole new package itself, is a hard dependency
23 and contains no getting started type information. As for tasteful, some
24 of that is a matter of personal opinion (mine being that it isn't).
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26 Thanks,
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28 Jason Wever
29 Gentoo/Sparc Co-Team Lead
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