[1292] in athena10
Re: the debathena-managed metapackage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Thu Mar 5 17:13:11 2009
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:12:15 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 05:03:48PM -0500, Evan Broder wrote:
> > - Similarly, -emacs-config, -{ntp|chrony}-config, and -dns-config may
> > belong in -locker and thereby in -standard.
>
> Whoa - as a heavy debathena-standard user, I definitely don't think any
> of those belong in -standard. Maybe -login.
Maybe -login. But tell me, why are they different from -bash-config,
-tcsh-config, -zephyr-config, and the other packages now in -locker
that configure your system to behave in MIT-local ways or to talk to
MIT services?
> I'm not sure how we can actually make this a sane migration path, but
> I'd kind of like the name "debathena-workstation" to become what
> "debathena-managed" is currently conceptualized to be, and maybe rename
> what is currently debathena-workstation to something more innocuous -
> debathena-graphical maybe? I worry that too many people will see
> "debathena-workstation" and think, "That's what I want!" just from the
> name, without reading the descriptions.
Yes, this could be a good idea.
Greg
