Proposal: Optional libsafe add-on?

Warren Togami warren at togami.com
Wed Jan 21 14:23:03 UTC 2004


seth vidal wrote:
>>>
>>>Modifying the world as an 'option' for legacy updates seems like a bad
>>>idea, a confusing idea for users, and generally a waste of time. If I've
>>>got older machines I want them to be left alone and just have security
>>>patches applied. I don't want to be putting brand new things on there.
>>>
>>>-sv
>>>
>>
>>This is why I suggested putting it on the webpage with lots of 
>>documentation and manual installation only.  The documentation would to 
>>people NOT to use it unless they really know what they are doing and 
>>willing to monitor their server for a while.
>>
> 
> 
> Why waste all the time building the packages and writing up the
> documentation?
> 
> People should be working on new things for FC2 and not screwing around
> with old distributions.
> 
> -sv

Shrug.  Most of the work is already done, and it has worked great for me 
on these old distributions for years.  I'm willing to do it.  I am just 
wondering if folks here think it is a proper thing to offer on the 
Legacy web page or not.

Warren





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