Re: Resolving policy and practice wrt sbin directories (traceroute)
>> Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:
> traceroute is where it is because that's where it is on every other
> UNIX
$ ls -l /usr/etc/traceroute
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root sys 22388 Jun 2 2000 /usr/etc/traceroute
$ ls -l /usr/contrib/bin/traceroute
-r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 32768 Aug 27 1998 /usr/contrib/bin/traceroute
that argument is not what I'd call solid. In fact the most convincing
argument I read on that thread was "just because", which is, I think,
what the original poster is questioning. Dimmishing the issue with a
"there are more important things to do" type of answer is just begging
for the question "why do we have a policy at all then". The whole is
larger that the sum of its parts, methinks.
> Technical excellence is more important than policy compliance, btw,
> in all cases. Fortunately, they only very rarely conflict.
Exactly. When you have 500+ people working towards technical
excellence you need something to bound the definition. Not everyone's
definition of technical excellence is going to agree on the details.
Policy won't ever outline all the details, just a set of broad scope
rules that permit you to work out the details yourself.
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