BTW-- My comments on documentation are independent of my comments for Avahi and apply to the system as a whole.
On Nov 20, 2007 8:52 AM, Loye Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- Loye Young Isaac & Young Computer Company Laredo, Texas (956) 857-1172 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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