On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:55, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 03 November 2003 10:58, Matthew Kennedy wrote:
> > > developer preference deviating from vanilla behaviour?  There have
> > > been bugs filed about the removal of graphical /etc/issue which was
> > > later removed.  Why not give the user the choice and put control in
> > > his or her hands?  Customisation is a preference.  My requests:
> >
> > I'm just glad the gory ASCII art one is gone :-D
> 
> /etc/issue.logo :p
> but anyways ... asking for a blank /etc/issue is wrong imo ... every distro 
> has an issue, Gentoo gets one ... it's a basic file that every distro should 
> have by default ...
> if you dont like it, make it a 0 byte file ... next time you update baselayout 
> it'll ask if you want to update /etc/issue, you just say no :p
> 

I am not going to cover the whole issue, as it seems enough people have
already 8), but I should comment on the issue thing.

Apart from it not even advertising Gentoo (hmm, think I should add
it *g* ), it is asked for for.  I have closed many bugs about it before
giving in (and then doing it good with /etc/issue.logo =), and I am sure
and I am going to get twice as many if it is removed again, as the
president was created.


No, this is not my .02, but what I will do until I get told officially
to change it, or there is a poll and 10,000 users vote against 8)

Cheers,

-- 

Martin Schlemmer
Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer
Cape Town, South Africa