Default config file behavior - request for comment

Eric S. Raymond esr at thyrsus.com
Thu Sep 21 04:57:52 UTC 2017


Hal Murray <hmurray at megapathdsl.net>:
> 
> >> Code in choice #1, and if its easy to do, with a big loud warning to stderr
> >> and logerr that it's doing nothing.
> 
> > Can be done. 
> 
> How about exiting after the loud warnings?  That solves the open-door problem 
> if the admin is focused on some other problem.

As I said to Achim, I'm getting cold feet about making functional changes
this close to release.

Yes, we could keep tinkering with stuff like this.  But I think it's time
to squash whaetever tracker issues we can, then stand away and *launch*
the damn rocket.
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