[1300] in athena10
Re: the debathena-managed metapackage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Evan Broder)
Thu Mar 5 18:08:09 2009
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Date: Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:07:01 -0500
From: Evan Broder <broder@MIT.EDU>
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To: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>
CC: Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>, Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>,
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Greg Price wrote:
> 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.
>
When I install debathena-standard, I expect it to configure Athena
services, and I'm fine with that. I /don't/ expect it to configure
non-Athena services, even services where you could draw a connection
from their functionality to Athena. So I consider it inappropriate of
-standard to configure either of those things for me; it destroys
Debathena's modularity
- Evan
