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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:11:49 +0000 "Benjamin Smee (strerror)" |
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<strerror@g.o> wrote: |
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| While I understand various developers concerns about cluttering /etc |
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| (especially embedded), I don't see why this should stop the policy of |
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| writting ebuilds that work and have expected tools around them. |
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| Precisely what that constitutes is the real question. |
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See, you're not really taking into account the cost of sticking files |
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in /etc. For packages where an etc entry is low cost, it's already |
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done. For things like bash completion and log rotation, the cost of |
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installing a file into /etc can be extremely high, so it shouldn't be |
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forced upon system administrators unless they ask for it. The same goes |
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for cron entries for packages where the cron part isn't a core |
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operation. |
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What would be nice is a ban on .example files in anywhere covered by |
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CONFIG_PROTECT. We have /usr/share/doc/ for those. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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