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Re: Should webapp enable an apache module if needed?



On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 05:20:55PM +0200, Tore Anderson wrote:
> > for 4, however, i think the fact that the admin is installing the
> > package should already count as a default "yes".
> 
>   Possibly, but the problem is that it is entirely impossible to know if
>  your default configuration is suitable for the environment your package
>  is going to be installed in - you cannot know if the user wants the
>  configuration for the web application to appear in a VirtualHost of his
>  own making (possibly with mandatory encryption and/or authentication)
>  or in the global part of the configuration file.

sure it is, you can ask :)

i agree though, that error should be on the side of caution, and that we
shouldn't allow any webapp helper packages to blow up in the face of
the admin.   the underlying assumption in any helper package should be that
the admin always knows more than we do.


	sean

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