Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: > Michael Biebl wrote: >> Giacomo Catenazzi wrote: >> >>> For these two reason (power and security), I think Debian should offer >>> a debconf question, (medium priority), about disabling pooling. >> >> Sorry, but this is certainly not going to happen. > > Why not? Is it so bad to give user a choice?
No, it's bad to misuse debconf though. >> The blacklist for faulty drives on the other hand, installed by >> default, might >> indeed be a good idea though. > > but a blacklist is only a helper, it would not have the complete list of > broken hardware, and updates on stable are slow. > So users need to override (easily) the decision (e.g. with the debconf > question). No, users should file bugs if their HW is broken so that those can be blacklisted too. Cheers, Emilio
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