On Dec 19, 2007, at 11:19 AM, Ansgar -59cobalt- Wiechers wrote:
Yeah...now you're modifying /var too. That's a real easy one to
implement on a few thousand machines.
Do you really see any significant problem in preparing a NetInstall
image with this change? Or doing a scripted rollout through SSH or
ARD?
The plural of "hacking around a problem" is not "stable system setup,
appropriate for the full range of use". There is a point of
diminishing maintainability when you're redirecting half of the
friggin' file system. Now, you have created a massive checklist of
non-standard plumbing that makes troubleshooting far more tedious
than necessary.
Face it. Your contention that there were no user - created temp files
written outside of /tmp and $HOME was wrong. Period. Not "almost
right", not "right if you define temp files so narrowly that you veer
into ridiculous". Wrong.
Now, instead of admitting your mistake and LETTING THIS GODFORSAKEN
THREAD DIE, you come back with page after page justifying things no
one was arguing about, and trying to show how temp data isn't really
temp data and it doesn't matter because FV doesn't deal with things
outside of the user home, and how even though there are user-created
temp files that are created outside of /tmp and $HOME, how that
doesn't really count because you can work around it.
Sad. Your point on the temp files thing was wrong. Admit it and move on.
Or, if you cannot, then STOP HITTING THE LIST WITH IT, and just send
it to me directly, so I can autodelete it and you can be happy that
you slammed the door to your room with the perfect edge to really
show me.
