PACKAGESITE spam

Steve Kargl sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Sat Dec 21 21:05:54 UTC 2013


On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 02:54:39PM -0600, Greg Rivers wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Dec 2013, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> > It did not ask how to stop this stupidity.  I asked to have this 
> > stupidity stopped by default.  The spewing of this information in 
> > /var/log/messages provides NOTHING.  Please turn it off by default.
> >
> 
> Do you really feel that strongly about it?  Having a record of changes to 
> the system has always seemed like a feature to me...
> 

Yes, I do feel strongly about it.  It is completely unnecesary noise.
It should be off by default.  If someone wants to fill /var up with
useless information, then that someone can turn on the noise.

-- 
Steve


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