jan damborsky wrote: > Bart Smaalders wrote: >> Jason Zhao wrote: >>> By adding this, it will be convenient for administrator. Especially, when >>> there is some packages were added by "pkgadd", but there is no index for >>> these packages in /var/pkg, and most of important the administrator know >>> what he needs to do and what he is doing. It will be easy to only add one >>> single package, otherwise, it will be time consuming to add them all. >> > >> >>> Anyway, it brings flexible works. >> So does using a binary editor on your raw disk to modify your >> filesystem. It still doesn't mean it's a good idea. > > But it definitely doesn't imply it is a bad idea. > If I know what/why/how, I should be allowed to do this. > I think that following statement better explains > the philosophy I prefer as far as taking > restrictive versus liberal approach is concerned:
I agree with Bart here this is just not functionality that should be in the pkg command by default. If you want it that badly implement it yourself and keep it as a set of local patches. I personally think it is far too dangerous. Compare this to what what ZFS does. You can if you really don't are about your data turn off checksuming for it on a per dataset basis, but even if you do that ZFS doesn't allow you to turn it off for metadata. > "/UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, > as that would also stop them from doing clever things./" IMO that philosophy is old and out dated. Users don't put their hands up and say "sorry I did a stupid thing" they shout and scream at the vendor and blame the system for not protecting them. We have do have to stop users doing stupid things because stupid things can lead to data corruption, security vulnerabilities and pissed of people. Having a deliberately corrupted package database (which his what you have if you ignore dependecies) could lead to all sorts of problems down the line. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ pkg-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-discuss
