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hasufell posted on Sat, 29 Mar 2014 22:31:46 +0000 as excerpted: |
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>> At least an einfo should be added to the package IMO telling the user |
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>> that HPN is enabled by default. |
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> No, that's not the right approach. There are tools you can use to check |
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> what flags are enabled. Use 'eix' and 'equery' for example. |
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... Or even the gentoo-recommended emerge --pretend or emerge -ask and |
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actually examining the output to ensure it's doing what you intend, |
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before actually going ahead. |
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Gentoo has never pretended to be a hand-holding distribution (tho it |
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seems to be getting rather more so these days); gentooers ignoring that |
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recommendation... get to keep the pieces. =:^) |
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If a gentooer didn't care enough to bother following long established |
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best-practice recommendations and thus end up with what might be an |
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insecure ssh despite the tools and recommendations available to help them |
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make an appropriate choice, that's their problem, not gentoo's. If they |
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can't be bothered to care, there's other distributions around to do that |
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baby-sitting for them. (Of course, whether such distributions are |
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themselves simply acting in accord with the wishes of NSA nannies is an |
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entirely different question... at least gentoo generally exposes that |
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sort of choice to the user... as it is in fact doing here, as well.) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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