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Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> posted |
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200709210316.50222.vapier@g.o, excerpted below, on Fri, 21 Sep |
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2007 03:16:49 -0400: |
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> On Friday 21 September 2007, Duncan wrote: |
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>> Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> posted |
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>> 200709201234.42152.vapier@g.o, excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Sep |
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>> 2007 12:34:41 -0400: |
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>> > we know that someone taking a stage3 has never configured anything |
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>> > before and so we can safely put defaults into /root/. |
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>> Just to point out... I've seen people mention overlaying a stage-3 on |
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>> an existing installation for recovery reasons[.] (Whether that's the |
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>> right way to accomplish such recovery isn't the point[.] |
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> anyone who blindly unpacks a stage3 onto their system gets what they |
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> deserve in my eyes |
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Agreed, but I was trying to stay strictly on target and not go there |
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(thus the whole whether that's the right way to do it is beside the point |
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thing). I was/am just pointing out that the base assumption isn't always |
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correct. |
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If the policy is to be the "you do it, you get to keep the pieces" |
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concept, great, but that's rather different than pretending it won't |
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happen. |
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I'd still rather not see anything going into /root based on principle, |
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but the "only at stage-build time, and if there's something there, don't |
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overwrite it" is IMO a reasonable compromise. (That's quite apart from |
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the question of what package gets the "privilege" of dealing with it; |
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I've no dog in that fight to have an opinion on.) |
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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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