[1294] in athena10
Re: the debathena-managed metapackage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Mar 5 17:18:58 2009
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 17:17:51 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>,
debathena@mit.edu
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On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, 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?
-emacs-config probably belongs in -login, but not -standard. The
customizations are things for dealing with AFS homedirs.
-{ntp|chrony}-config is probably inappropriate for -standard;
debathena-kerberos-config already depends on working ntp; these packages
differ in that they force using time.mit.edu rather than the default ntp
server pool.
-dns-config runs a local caching nameserver; that seems inappropriate for
laptops.
-Tim Abbott
