PACKAGESITE spam

[Ian Lepore]

On Sat, 2013-12-21 at 15:25 -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 22, 2013 at 12:16:00AM +0100, Julien Laffaye wrote:
> > On 12/22/2013 12:04 AM, 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.
> > 
> > And if you want to save the few extra kB, you can turn it off...
> 
> I have turned it off.  
> 
> > >> 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.
> > >
> > 
> > Actually, you are the one making noise...
> 
> What does this logging in /var/log/message provide that is
> not provided by 'pkg info'?  It is useless noise.
> 

"Useless noise" is what you get when someone holds an opinion that
clearly nobody else agrees with, and yet they somehow think that just
saying it over and over again will change peoples' minds.

-- Ian