Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change [offtopic]

2008-01-19 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Alec Warner schreef: >> But who compiles firefox? :) Probably everyone that noticed that the segmentation faults coming from the precompiled versions are annoying? Stefan -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Us

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Concerns about WIPE_TMP change [offtopic]

2008-01-19 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Duncan schreef: > Richard Freeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Sat, 19 Jan 2008 07:55:53 -0500: > > Obscure? It's the directory name (says another with both /tmp and /var/ > tmp on tmpfs). ...very offtopic bu

Re: [gentoo-dev] Concerns about WIPE_TMP change

2008-01-19 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Mike Frysinger schreef: > i can add an elog, but the arguments for not turning it on by default are far > from convincing Please, only do this, and I'll stop about this subject. :) So something like *beep*beep*beep* /tmp will now by default cleane

Re: [gentoo-dev] Concerns about WIPE_TMP change

2008-01-19 Thread Stefan de Konink
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Mike Frysinger schreef: > On Saturday 19 January 2008, Roy Marples wrote: >> On Sat, 2008-01-19 at 02:48 +0100, Stefan de Konink wrote: >>> In my opinion WIPE_TMP should be in the same state >>> as RC_PARALLEL_STAR

[gentoo-dev] Concerns about WIPE_TMP change

2008-01-18 Thread Stefan de Konink
If anyone thinks wiping /var/tmp is evil, please reconsider /tmp too. In my opinion WIPE_TMP should be in the same state as RC_PARALLEL_STARTUP. Unless anyone can make sure a user knows what he is doing, disable it. Yours Sincerely, Stefan de Konink ps. No I did not have data loss, like any good ad