On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 07:54:15PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > We have to have a debate about it because there is an actual > substantive disagreement between you and Manoj. Really? What is it? I only saw comments that amount to "I interpret policy this way" and "other things do it this way", neither of which is a response to my original request for "someone to give a good reason why randomly deleting config files of installed packages is the best way to go about things, and should be supported." > If you don't think > it's that important, then say so, and Manoj could put in a policy > change to make explicit that deletions must be preserved. Well, I suppose I could change the scripts to cope, and change inetd to just enable all its internal services unless told otherwise, so anyone who was stupid enough to think removing the config file would do any good could get their machine DoS'ed off the .net thanks to a handful of untracable spoofed packets. Because, hey, personal whims, and the letter of policy are what matters, not the needs of our userbase, right? Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <aj@humbug.org.au> <http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/> I don't speak for anyone save myself. GPG signed mail preferred. ``If you don't do it now, you'll be one year older when you do.''
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