On 16/08/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006 at 21:21, Robert Welz wrote:
> i.e. learning ldap, fixing sguile and debugging xen for nfs. Now I fix all
> those init.d files all the day.
Just simplifying the etc-update process by having an option to silently
install files that haven't been locally modified would help a _lot_.
This was my big complaint about FreeBSD, too....
I agree with this - it would make things easier. Note that you can
alleviate this problem to a certain extent by the use of
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK. For example, if you never alter your stock init.d
scripts or, say, udev configuration files then you could put
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/init.d /etc/udev" in /etc/make.conf. Any
files beneath these directories will simply be clobbered by subsequent
installation of packages that place files there (remember,
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc" is defined by default).
Cheers,
--Kerin
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