[1293] in athena10
Re: the debathena-managed metapackage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Mar 5 17:16:41 2009
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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 17:15:52 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
CC: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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Greg Price wrote:
> 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?
>
-bash-config and -tcsh-config add a shell alias to my account.
-zephyr-config strictly adds functionality, it doesn't change it.
-standard is about providing the Athena clients, not the Athena system
configuration.
- Evan
