On Sunday 02 January 2005 17:54, Stuart Herbert wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2005 12:52, Jason Stubbs wrote: > > The main issue with this is that there is no way to know why/how a file > > was modified and therefore no way to know whether it is critical to > > system operation. > > For the majority of packages, that won't matter. If the user is > uninstalling the package which owns the file, just move all the > CONFIG_PROTECT'ed files into an attic somewhere. > > Portage could then have the option of looking in the attic if the user > decides to re-install the package at a later date.
What about those packages that share config files? (Do they exist?) In this case it is clearly an error to remove the file when the owner disappears. > That's another approach, but it still leaves you with a /etc that's a mix > of required files and orphaned files. Personally I think it's much better > to clear out all the orphaned files to an attic, and keep /etc as clean as > possible. I prefer the dotfile approach. It leaves the human touch, while still offering that needed feature of marking obsolete config files. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -- [email protected] mailing list
