On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 03:39:55PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote: > I find myself frowning upon the fact that Subversion's build system > is trying to modify files in the /etc directory by default. > > It is nice when it works and users expect it, but it is not so nice > when it does not work, or when it works but the user isn't expecting it. > So I think we should have users explicitly ask for files in /etc > to be modified. > > Since most people use binary packages these days and rarely build from > source, this change will not affect many of our users. Most packagers > already pass --disable-mod-activation and provide OS-specific means of > configuring Apache to work with Subversion. > > Also, this does not break existing setups which already pass > --disable-mod-activation. > > Any objections?
I haven't heard any objections, but got encouraging comments from danielsh and jeremyw, so I've committed this change in r961437. Stefan
