On Mon, Dec 12, 2005 at 09:41:47AM +0100, Richard van den Berg wrote: > Tom Lane wrote: > > You've got that 100% backwards: you should be complaining to Debian that > > it's not their business to editorialize on the default setting. Actually it *is* the business of Debian maintainers to determine what works best for our users over and above what upstream decide. Otherwise you'd get stuff like /usr/libexec, etc. If Tom could present an actual reason why it shouldn't be enabled, I'm sure Martin (Pitt) would be interested. But Stephen Frost and Peter Eisentraut as well as others seem to be suggesting that Debian default is sane. > I've forwarded this thread to Debian as a bug report. Their answer is > they will discuss this setting again when 8.2 comes out. The full answer > is here: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=342369 The bug has been closed on Peter's advice. Cheers, Anand -- `When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives' -- Robert A Heinlein, "If this goes on --"
