Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2001 15:19:19 -0800 (PST) From: Doug Barton <DougB@gorean.org> To: Jordan Hubbard <jkh@winston.osd.bsdi.com> Cc: <cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org>, <cvs-all@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/etc crontab rc src/etc/defaults rc.conf src/etc/mtree BSD.root.dist src/libexec Makefile src/libexec/save-entropy Makefile save-entropy.sh Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.31.0101111510300.11112-100000@dt051n37.san.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <19337.979245831@winston.osd.bsdi.com>
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On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jordan Hubbard wrote:
> Well, I'm quite chilled out myself but I'd have to still agree with
> Matt that putting ANYTHING like this in the root directory is just
> conceptually wrong and should never have been entertained as a
> solution, no matter how tempting it may have been at the time.
>
> I do also fully understand the need for work-arounds in one's daily
> life as an engineer, but there are also any number of crocks which
> will occur to your typical engineer in the course of his life which he
> would be best advised to resist temptation and stay far away from.
> What we have here is thus simply a case of someone's bogometer failing
> to go off, or being calibrated to the wrong setting, and it should
> have tripped and prevented the ``cvs commit'' command from being typed
> at all. :-)
*Snap* Ok, I'm officially out of patience now. I can handle the
assertion that this may be a bad idea, but to suggest (effectively) that
I'm an idiot for even considering it is a bit much. You may find it hard
to believe but A) I have a fair degree of systems engineering knowledge
and experience, B) I asked for and received review for this idea,
including the default location of the /.entropy directory. As much as this
idea may offend your sensibilities, it works as a starting point while we
fix the larger problems that prevent it from going into /var in the first
place.
If you still can't see/understand/accept my opinion on this, I'll
tell you what. Let's stack up all of your stupid ideas that DIDN'T work
and got committed anyway against all of my stupid ideas that do. I think
I'd win.
Taking a break,
Doug
--
"The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and
to watch someone else do it wrong without comment."
-- Theodore H. White
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