PACKAGESITE spam

Shane Ambler FreeBSD at ShaneWare.Biz
Sun Dec 22 02:45:04 UTC 2013


On 22/12/2013 09:34, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 11:14:39PM +0100, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
>>
>> this has been done and activated for reason, first for lot of companies,
> 
> companies can turn it on it they want it.

Generally the more secure option is default, you can turn off security
options as you choose.

>> secondly I receive tons of request to actiavte on by default while
>> you are the first to request it off by default
> 
> I certainly can't refute 'tons of [private] requests'.  There is
> no discussing of such logging in freebsd-current, freebsd-hackers,
> or freebsd-ports lists.
> 
> Other than the noise in /var/log/message, what does this provide
> that 'pkg info' doesn't!  Please turn of this feature by default.
> 

Isn't this "noise" the same as we had with the old package system?
So really nothing has changed, well now we can turn it off which I
don't think we could before.



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