Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enablement of drop-in configuration files

2015-03-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 8:36 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > Personally I'm with Vapier that this is a Bad Idea(TM) for the reasons he > stated; but I'm unsure we have "A Policy Against It" > > It seems like something one might offer an eselect module for though. I've had a couple people recommend this;

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enablement of drop-in configuration files

2015-03-31 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:14 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Mike Gilbert > wrote: > >> > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I have been bumping heads with Mike Frysinger (vapier) on the topic of > >> drop-in config f

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enablement of drop-in configuration files

2015-03-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 5:21 PM, Alec Warner wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have been bumping heads with Mike Frysinger (vapier) on the topic of >> drop-in config files that are utilized by quite a few system services >> on Gentoo. For ref

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enablement of drop-in configuration files

2015-03-31 Thread Alec Warner
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 11:14 AM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been bumping heads with Mike Frysinger (vapier) on the topic of > drop-in config files that are utilized by quite a few system services > on Gentoo. For reference, see bug 544150. > I am going to the movies with Mike tomo

Re: [gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enablement of drop-in configuration files

2015-03-31 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Mar 31, 2015 at 2:14 PM, Mike Gilbert wrote: > > - Do we have a policy regarding enablement of drop-in config files? > - If so, what is it? Where is it documented? > - If not, do we need a policy and what should it be? > - Keep in mind that any policy needs to be technically feasible to im

[gentoo-dev] Policy regarding enablement of drop-in configuration files

2015-03-31 Thread Mike Gilbert
Hi all, I have been bumping heads with Mike Frysinger (vapier) on the topic of drop-in config files that are utilized by quite a few system services on Gentoo. For reference, see bug 544150. Mike claims that Gentoo has a policy of "not enabling anything by default", and that this policy applies t