Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to poweroff the system from user?

[lee <lee@yagibdah.de>]

Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Sat, Apr 4, 2015 at 8:41 AM, lee <lee@yagibdah.de> wrote:
>>
>> Oh I mean the *default*.  We should not need to change the inittab to
>> have it disabled by default.
>>
>> Isn't commenting out the whole line sufficient?
>>
>
> Uh, commenting out the line is changing the inittab (and I have no
> idea if it works or not offhand).
>
> With Gentoo I prefer to not have huge religious debates about Gentoo.
> We try to give users as much choice as possible which lets us sidestep
> stupid arguments about whether such-and-such is better than something
> else.  The problem is that by their nature there usually can only be
> one default (or one default default if you want to make it turtles all
> the way down with profiles and such).  So, suddenly we end up fighting
> over this stuff anyway...

Living in the past is not onwardly a good default.


(At first I wanted to say "Living in the past seldom is a good default."
--- but the usage of "seldom" and the idea of using "seldomly" gave me
to think, and it seems that "seldom" can mean something like "not
onwardly".  And I don't know whether it should be "Living in the past is
seldom a good default." --- which even I notice could be considered as
rather unfriendly by native English speakers --- or "... seldom is ...".
However, "not onwardly" might create an interesting tautology here, so
it has it's merits.)


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