----- "Rich Bowen" <[email protected]> wrote: > On Nov 18, 2010, at 11:52 AM, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: > > > On 11/18/2010 7:43 AM, Nick Kew wrote: > >> On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 11:46:06 +0000 (UTC) > >> Igor Galić <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > >>> Would it be sensible to change the default here as well? > >> > >> This is the kind of question that should better be discussed > >> with downstream users, especially packagers, than with developers. > >> > >> If in doubt, don't change without at least a consensus among > >> the distros. There's enough end-user confusion about defaults > >> that differ from what they've read. Let's not add to it > ourselves! > > > > Packagers don't follow our structure, and rarely follow our > > recommendations. > > I wouldn't worry about them, ask on users@ or docs@ for a user > > perspective. > > > The end goal to changing default values should always be (IMO) what > happens when you start httpd with no config file. I don't > realistically think that we'll get there - there's too many things > that have to be set - but hypothetically, that should be what we're > working towards when we make changes like this.
Does that mean we should set Listen to default to 80?! *cough* > So, +1 to changing this, as it give us something that is safe to have > > set server-wide. I'm absolutely agree with Rich and Bill. I'll take a look at Eric's patch and try to cobble something together that will might fulfill the purpose. > -- > Rich Bowen > [email protected] i -- Igor Galić Tel: +43 (0) 664 886 22 883 Mail: [email protected] URL: http://brainsware.org/
