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From: "Andy Arbon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "gentoo-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 30, 2003 6:38 PM
Subject: [gentoo-user] Base layout causing pointless config updates


> Hello,
> 
> I'm just wondering if anyone here knows if anything is being done with
> etc-update or the baselayout package to stop it pointlessly trying up
> update a load of configuration files that I'm never going to let it
> touch every time it is updated?
> 
> It seems like baselayout's changed quite regularly recently (this is in
> the x86 branch) and every time it does I get asked to update:
> 1) /etc/DIR_COLORS
> 2) /etc/devfsd.conf
> 3) /etc/fstab
> 4) /etc/group
> 5) /etc/passwd
> 6) /etc/rc.conf
> 7) /etc/shadow
> 8) /etc/conf.d/net
> 9) /etc/modules.autoload.d/kernel-2.6
> 
> Aside from rc.conf and maybe devfsd.conf I can't think of a single one
> of those that should ever be replaced or merged with a vanilla copy. In
> fact with most of them accidentally replacing the file with a vanilla
> one would be somewhere between an annoyance and a major headache.

What if baselayout introduces a new group or user????
Think about it.

> 
> Is there anything that is/has being/been done about this?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andy
> 
> 
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