On 18 December 2011 17:07, Joel Rosdahl <j...@debian.org> wrote: > On 2011-12-18 11:44, Reuben Thomas wrote: >> I agree with all of the above, but why not s/enable/install/? > > I think that it's not uncommon to want to use ccache only explicitly, > but that's mostly speculation. Another example of where it could be bad > is that if the ccache package gets installed on a multi-user server > where home directories are on (slow) NFS, then each user has to either > disable ccache or explicitly set CCACHE_DIR to be on a non-NFS location > since ccache on NFS is not very performant.
Here's another suggestion: how about having a dpkg configuration item? This way, the user gets to choose at install time whether to enable it, and has an easy way to switch it on/off via dpkg-reconfigure. -- http://rrt.sc3d.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
