Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 201012191709.20774.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
The list can be sorted. Within each section it should be sorted by last name of the maintainers.
i cant say ive noticed this policy, but changing to that should be easy.
It has been mentioned several times before.
This has been discussed several times in the past, and somebody who has been around as long as you should either remember these arguments or be able to look them up in the archives. In short: defaults that may be good for you are most probably bad for (m)any other users of the board. Instead of spreading such bad defaults we default to not setting any.
just because ive seen you use this same logic before ("i said so") doesnt mean
Just for the records: I'm not alone with this opinion.
i agree with it or even understand it. there is no such thing as "bad defaults" when it comes to network settings here. having a default IP that doesnt match your local LAN is just as "bad" as not having any IP at all. in both cases, things need the same amount of effort to change.
I disagree. Setting random default values can cause collisions with existing addresses, i. e. cause trouble that may even interrupt operation of other, innocent systems; having no values set will only cause your local system not to work, but will never do any damage to others.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk