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Re: athena 10 page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Aug 13 18:01:37 2008
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: Timothy G Abbott <tabbott@mit.edu>
Cc: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>, athena10@mit.edu
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On Wed, 2008-08-13 at 17:53 -0400, Timothy G Abbott wrote:
> I wouldn't document -locker on the same list as -standard, -login,
> -workstation, and -cluster; I'm not aware of anyone who actually picks it
> over standard (we removed documentation for it because of this in order to
> declutter our documentation).
I've removed "locker" as an option in the installer script so that it
can be removed from the web documentation without a disconnect.
> But I do think we will want to advertise a solution for private
> workstations with the same software installed as a cluster machine.
The installer script offers to install debathena-cluster-software
alongside debathena-workstation, if that's what you mean.
In terms of the Athena-specific software on cluster machines, the plan
is for people to install individual cluster functionality packages if
they want (debathena-tmp-cleaner, debathena-auto-update, etc.). That
seems more in keeping with the Ubuntu/Debian philosophy than the 9.4
philosophy of having people install exactly the same software set as a
cluster machine and then turn off unwanted features in rc.conf.
