[1299] in athena10
Re: the debathena-managed metapackage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Price)
Thu Mar 5 18:02:42 2009
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:01:45 -0500
From: Greg Price <price@MIT.EDU>
To: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>,
debathena@mit.edu
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On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 05:17:51PM -0500, Tim Abbott wrote:
> -emacs-config probably belongs in -login, but not -standard. The
> customizations are things for dealing with AFS homedirs.
Some of them are: the auto-save stuff and one of the gnus settings.
They're harmless in any case, though.
There's also configuring rmail to find nmh (which comes through
debathena-clients); protecting tcsh users from themselves; fixing an
upstream bug by setting tex-dvi-print-command; and setting gnus to
talk to news.mit.edu.
Of these, the second and third aren't of much consequence in any case.
The first naturally belongs in -standard (even -clients). The last is
just like -zephyr-config, so again in -standard.
> -{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.
OK.
> -dns-config runs a local caching nameserver; that seems inappropriate for
> laptops.
Really? I thought the recommendation these days was to do precisely
that on all machines, to mitigate the insecurity of DNS.
The package's other effect is to set the search path to mit.edu.
Greg
