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From: "Anthony G. Basile" <blueness@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Going against co-maintainer's wishes (ref. bug 412697)
Date: Sat, 25 May 2013 21:55:59
Message-Id: 51A13369.6080504@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Going against co-maintainer's wishes (ref. bug 412697) by Mike Gilbert
1 On 05/25/2013 03:58 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote:
2 > On Sat, May 25, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Anthony G. Basile <blueness@g.o> wrote:
3 >> Can I ask the systemd people to design a working solution for opting out? I
4 >> can't support this initiative without such a solution and I would be happy
5 >> to work with the systemd people to reach it, ie I'll test.
6 >>
7 > What about INSTALL_MASK does not work?
8 >
9 > I put the responsibility for designing a more idiot-proof opt-out
10 > system in the hands of those that actually care about it. Most of us
11 > are on systems with plenty of storage, and those who are not (embedded
12 > devs) should be perfectly capable of setting INSTALL_MASK without
13 > hosing their systems.
14 >
15 Maybe it is sufficient. I seem to recall someone saying (either on the
16 list or IRC) that it needed some work. If its good enough, then problem
17 solved.
18
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20 Anthony G. Basile, Ph.D.
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