Re: It's Huntin' Season
>>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <tb@becket.net> writes:
Thomas> Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> writes:
>> Umm. Except that I think that giving users more choice --
>> giving the sysadmin a choice about setting local site defaults can
>> only be good.
Thomas> Oh certainly! But ultimately, this amounts to making
Thomas> *everything* a configuration option, doesn't it? I mean,
Not quite. All the add ons and changes made by us, the vendor,
to the upstream emacs ought to be as configurable as possible.
Thomas> some sysadmin might want to hexedit ls to behave a little
Thomas> differently; isn't it good to "give the sysadmin the choice",
Thomas> and thus mark it a conffile?
I am getting rather tired of ludicrous strawmen.
>> I vote for things staying under /etc, and being configuration files.
Thomas> The real issue, of course, is whether they should be forced to be
Thomas> conffiles. Obviously some must be conffiles.
They certainly are not forced to be conffiles. Indeed, psgml,
vm, and gnus, the three emacs packages I maintain, are now preserving
user changes, and have no conffiles at all.
manoj
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