Hi Marek, thank you very much for wqriting this up. I highly appreciate this.
On Mon, 16 Aug 2021 16:15:06 +0100 Marek Szuba wrote: >Title: >=app-misc/mc-4.8.27 to drop support for ~/.mc >Author: Marek Szuba <[email protected]> >Posted: 2021-08-19 >Revision: 1 >News-Item-Format: 2.0 >Display-If-Installed: app-misc/mc > >app-misc/mc versions between 4.8.1 and 4.8.26, inclusive, would look >for their user configuration in two possible places: > > * if built with USE=-xdg, only the legacy directory ~/.mc is used; > > * if built with USE=xdg, mc uses appropriate XDG user directories > (e.g. ~/.config/mc, ~/.local/share/mc) if present and attempts > to automatically migrate the contents of ~/.mc otherwise. > >However, starting with version 4.8.27 Midnight Commander will use _only >XDG user directories_ for its configuration and no longer automatically >migrate the contents of ~/.mc. For more information, see: > > https://midnight-commander.org/wiki/NEWS-4.8.27 > https://midnight-commander.org/ticket/3682 > >For everyone who currently uses app-misc/mc[-xdg], or has not started >mc for so long that it hasn't had a chance to migrate its >configuration, upgrading to 4.8.27 or newer will result in Midnight >Commander effectively reverting to default user configuration. In >order to prevent this from happening, make sure automatic migration is >available: > > echo 'app-misc/mc' >> /etc/portage/package.use I suppose that should be: echo 'app-misc/mc xdg' >> /etc/portage/package.use > emerge --oneshot <app-misc/mc-4.8.27 > >and have every user on your system with ~/.mc present run mc at least run mc _and_ mcedit once >once prior to the version upgrade. > >No action is required of everyone currently using app-misc/mc s/of/for/ ? >with USE=xdg enabled. > Cheers Lars -- Lars Wendler Gentoo package maintainer GPG: 21CC CF02 4586 0A07 ED93 9F68 498F E765 960E 9B39
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