From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 22811 invoked by uid 1002); 8 Sep 2003 21:39:21 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 21136 invoked from network); 8 Sep 2003 21:39:21 -0000 From: Steven Elling To: Gentoo-Dev Date: Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:39:14 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 References: <1062938697.8455.90.camel@nosferatu.lan> <200309071502.27645.jk@microgalaxy.net> In-Reply-To: <200309071502.27645.jk@microgalaxy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309081639.14347.ellings@kcnet.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions X-Archives-Salt: ac1552d5-1d8f-4bce-95f3-6aff717ac5a6 X-Archives-Hash: dcb12acf2db541be6e39517e6ac6ba9c On Sunday 07 September 2003 10:02, Jan Krueger wrote: > On Sunday 07 September 2003 12:44, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > heh. Choose '2' for etc-update 8) > > Normally i do so. But i dont want to press this key! > > Please understand: Its not about pressing a key. Its about: > > Requiring expensive human interaction when there is no need for it. Do that on several boxes and see how you feel about requiring `comment' updates to a config file or even having to deal with files that shouldn't need to be updated at all or manually. I've supported 350 and 3000 UNIX servers. Imagine if they were all Gentoo. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list