I can't be at the meeting today, but I have two issues that trouble me.
AVAHI I absolutely hate avahi. I don't want my machines to be advertising services and trying to find them, especially when I am running a server that's connected straight to the Internet. But getting avahi off a system is harder than I expected, especially since avahi doesn't seem to have good documentation. (1) Should avahi ever be on a production server that's exposed to the net? (2) Is there any documentation on how to get it off the system and still leave the system in a usable and upgradeable state? DOCUMENTATION Every package should have a man page as a matter of course, because the manpage system is the standard documentation This is especially so in a command-line only environment. manpage-alert tells me that about 10% of the packages on my server, and 20% of the packages on my Ubuntu desktop machines, don't have man pages. Substantially all of the missing man pages are from packages that are maintained by the Ubuntu community. Debian policy requires man pages before including the package in the repositories. Every once in a while, some slip into the repos without the man pages, but mostly Debian does a good job of requiring this basic level of documentation. Happy Trails, Loye Young Isaac & Young Computer Company Laredo, Texas http://www.iycc.biz -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
