Re: why etc/default.d & etc/local.d

2012-12-03 Thread Benoit Chesneau
On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 3:14 AM, Noah Slater wrote: > The premise of this question is flawed. Debian is a downstream. So are all > distributions. CouchDB is designed, first and foremost, to package itself > from source. That's why we create these directories for the user. Please > also note that t

Re: why etc/default.d & etc/local.d

2012-12-01 Thread Noah Slater
The premise of this question is flawed. Debian is a downstream. So are all distributions. CouchDB is designed, first and foremost, to package itself from source. That's why we create these directories for the user. Please also note that they are only created during "make install" and they do not ex

Re: why etc/default.d & etc/local.d

2012-11-12 Thread Randall Leeds
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 3:20 PM, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > > On Nov 13, 2012, at 00:15 , Paul J Davis > wrote: > > > I'd rather leave them or remove the functionality. Hiding the config > chain seems wrong. > > +1 on definite decisions, and +1 on keeping things as is. > The functionality is to pass

Re: why etc/default.d & etc/local.d

2012-11-12 Thread Jan Lehnardt
On Nov 13, 2012, at 00:15 , Paul J Davis wrote: > I'd rather leave them or remove the functionality. Hiding the config chain > seems wrong. +1 on definite decisions, and +1 on keeping things as is. Cheers Jan -- > > On Nov 12, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Randall Leeds wrote: > >> +0 on removing t

Re: why etc/default.d & etc/local.d

2012-11-12 Thread Paul J Davis
I'd rather leave them or remove the functionality. Hiding the config chain seems wrong. On Nov 12, 2012, at 5:37 PM, Randall Leeds wrote: > +0 on removing them. > > > On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > >> >> On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:12 , Benoit Chesneau wrote: >> >>>

Re: why etc/default.d & etc/local.d

2012-11-12 Thread Randall Leeds
+0 on removing them. On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Jan Lehnardt wrote: > > On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:12 , Benoit Chesneau wrote: > > > I wonder why we handle this config files in the couchdb build. It's > > more the responsability of the Linux, BSD distributions to maintain > > them. > > We a

Re: why etc/default.d & etc/local.d

2012-11-12 Thread Jan Lehnardt
On Nov 10, 2012, at 12:12 , Benoit Chesneau wrote: > I wonder why we handle this config files in the couchdb build. It's > more the responsability of the Linux, BSD distributions to maintain > them. We actually just create the directories, for users to put files into, we don’t use them ourselve

why etc/default.d & etc/local.d

2012-11-10 Thread Benoit Chesneau
I wonder why we handle this config files in the couchdb build. It's more the responsability of the Linux, BSD distributions to maintain them. - benoit