Re: why etc/default.d etc/local.d

2012-12-03 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Noah Slater nsla...@apache.org wrote: The premise of this question is flawed. Debian is a downstream. So are all distributions. CouchDB is designed, first and foremost, to package itself from source. That's why we create these directories for the user. Please

Re: why etc/default.d etc/local.d

2012-12-01 Thread Noah Slater
The premise of this question is flawed. Debian is a downstream. So are all distributions. CouchDB is designed, first and foremost, to package itself from source. That's why we create these directories for the user. Please also note that they are only created during make install and they do not

Re: why etc/default.d etc/local.d

2012-11-12 Thread Jan Lehnardt
On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:12 , Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder why we handle this config files in the couchdb build. It's more the responsability of the Linux, BSD distributions to maintain them. We actually just create the directories, for users to put files into, we don’t

Re: why etc/default.d etc/local.d

2012-11-12 Thread Randall Leeds
+0 on removing them. On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote: On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:12 , Benoit Chesneau bchesn...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder why we handle this config files in the couchdb build. It's more the responsability of the Linux, BSD distributions to

Re: why etc/default.d etc/local.d

2012-11-12 Thread Paul J Davis
I'd rather leave them or remove the functionality. Hiding the config chain seems wrong. On Nov 12, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Randall Leeds randall.le...@gmail.com wrote: +0 on removing them. On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote: On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:12 ,

Re: why etc/default.d etc/local.d

2012-11-12 Thread Jan Lehnardt
On Nov 13, 2012, at 00:15 , Paul J Davis paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com wrote: I'd rather leave them or remove the functionality. Hiding the config chain seems wrong. +1 on definite decisions, and +1 on keeping things as is. Cheers Jan -- On Nov 12, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Randall Leeds

Re: why etc/default.d etc/local.d

2012-11-12 Thread Randall Leeds
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Jan Lehnardt j...@apache.org wrote: On Nov 13, 2012, at 00:15 , Paul J Davis paul.joseph.da...@gmail.com wrote: I'd rather leave them or remove the functionality. Hiding the config chain seems wrong. +1 on definite decisions, and +1 on keeping things as

why etc/default.d etc/local.d

2012-11-10 Thread Benoit Chesneau
I wonder why we handle this config files in the couchdb build. It's more the responsability of the Linux, BSD distributions to maintain them. - benoit