Re: Bug#23661: usr/doc should not be accessible through http servers by default
>>"Steve" == Steve Robbins <steve@nyongwa.montreal.qc.ca> writes:
Steve> I can think of one situation for which this is inconvenient.
Steve> If I set up a local net full of debian machines, only one of
Steve> which is running a web server, this change would prevent me
Steve> from using the web to browse the docs from all the machines
Steve> but one.
Umm. Not quite. If the other machines are not running a web
server, you can't access /usr/doc from them. Perhaps you meant, if
they were all running web servers, and exporting /usr/doc, you could
look at whatever is installed from one central location.
manoj
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