Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Fri, 21 Sep 2007 03:16:49 -0400:
> On Friday 21 September 2007, Duncan wrote: >> Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted >> [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Thu, 20 Sep >> >> 2007 12:34:41 -0400: >> > we know that someone taking a stage3 has never configured anything >> > before and so we can safely put defaults into /root/. >> >> Just to point out... I've seen people mention overlaying a stage-3 on >> an existing installation for recovery reasons[.] (Whether that's the >> right way to accomplish such recovery isn't the point[.] > > anyone who blindly unpacks a stage3 onto their system gets what they > deserve in my eyes Agreed, but I was trying to stay strictly on target and not go there (thus the whole whether that's the right way to do it is beside the point thing). I was/am just pointing out that the base assumption isn't always correct. If the policy is to be the "you do it, you get to keep the pieces" concept, great, but that's rather different than pretending it won't happen. I'd still rather not see anything going into /root based on principle, but the "only at stage-build time, and if there's something there, don't overwrite it" is IMO a reasonable compromise. (That's quite apart from the question of what package gets the "privilege" of dealing with it; I've no dog in that fight to have an opinion on.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
