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Re: athena 10 page
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Reed)
Wed Aug 13 21:10:16 2008
Cc: athena10@mit.edu
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From: Jonathan Reed <jdreed@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
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Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 21:09:31 -0400
On Aug 13, 2008, at 6:00 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:
> 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.
Yeah, locker was only documented because it was in the installer.
I have removed it.
>> 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.
Documented.
-Jon
