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Re: r62959 - in trunk/packages/partman/partman-base: . debian init.d



On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 09:00:29PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 April 2010, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > You rarely ought to need to touch it and in this case it being available
> > by preseeding or low priority looks to be the sanest way to go.
> 
> Agreed. But I see no reason why this should be available through preseeding 
> only. This type of question is exactly why we have expert mode.
> 
> > In modern machine the default ought to be the most logical option and
> > ought to work fine (and even provide some performance benefit in some
> > cases) so this shouldn't be so easy to mess with it IMO.
> 
> So it should not be asked at default priority and have a very clear 
> description.
> 
> IMO having at as a regular question at default prio with a good description 
> also allows to document the issue better (or at least, makes the
> "documentation" more accessible).

I agree that it would make sense to ask this at (probably) medium
priority, although I'm not sure when I'll have time to make this change.
Perhaps somebody could file a reminder bug?

-- 
Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]


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