On Nov 19, 2007, at 8:29 AM, Trevor Watson wrote:

> For the handling of robots.txt, I chose to return a file rather  
> than hard-coding the content on the basis that administrators _may_  
> want to allow crawlers to attempt to crawl their pkg depot.

Or even part of it.  Seems correct.

> The content of the checked-in file disallows crawling of the depot  
> by default. I'd be happy to revise this if you guys think I'm on  
> the wrong track. The only real problem I see in doing it this way  
> is that the robots.txt file is located on PKG_ROOT/usr, which is  
> probably not the best place for a file which could be edited by the  
> admin.

Speaking as a long-time website admin, if it's not in the servers "/"  
directory, I wouldn't have the vaguest idea where else to start  
looking.  Sigh.  -Tim



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