[1302] in athena10
Re: the debathena-managed metapackage
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anders Kaseorg)
Thu Mar 5 18:12:29 2009
Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:11:41 -0500 (EST)
From: Anders Kaseorg <andersk@MIT.EDU>
To: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>
cc: Greg Price <price@mit.edu>, Tim Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>,
Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, debathena@mit.edu
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On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
> 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
Strongly ==broder, for the same reason.
Additionally, running your own nameserver on your laptop prevents you from
logging into wifi that uses DNS hacks to require registration.
Even if that wasn’t the case, debathena-standard has nothing whatsoever to
do with your Emacs configuration or your nameservers.
Anders
