On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:04:21 +0100 Harald van Dijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 11:55:44AM +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 12:41:27 +0100 Harald van Dijk
| > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| > | I don't think anyone was planning on encouraging people to mess
| > | with ACCEPT_RESTRICT if it gets implemented.
| > 
| > Implementing it *is* encouraging people to mess with it.
| 
| Just like people are encouraged to use FEATURES="noauto noclean"?
| Implementing it is not encouraging people to mess with it.

FEATURES has legitimate values. The feature as a whole is useful, even
if some of the options have very restricted target audiences.

| As for the legitimate use, I won't try to convince you that there are
| legitimate uses, but rather, even if it is silly, what does it matter
| to you?

It matters in that there's even more time being spent going off on
completely the wrong track that would be of more use elsewhere.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh
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