On Feb 15, 2004, at 2:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
on the topic, i still believe 'baselayout' s~b changing 'fstab', esp when what it offers is basically useless.
It's not *actually* baselaylout or emerge changing /etc/fstab, but careless use of etc-update afterwards.
After an emerge one should check every file in the list supplied by etc-update, considering the differences between them &/or whether one has ever changed that file oneself.
But otherwise, I agree. As you are aware this issue has been discussed in -dev recently, so I refer you to Seemant Kulleen's posting of February 8, 2004 6:18:35 am GMT.
'fstab' is one of those files every Gentoo user shd design him/herself & maintain by hand in whatever form s/he needs for the h/ware.
Indeed. I find the idea of my fstab being over-written quite horrific. That users are doing so is probably simply a reflection upon Gentoo's popularity - when I started using Gentoo I had already 3 years experience with Mandrake and another (old-fangled) Unix. I've learned a lot in last year since starting to use Gentoo, however I had edited fstab just a handful of times before, and knew enough that fstab was an IMPORTANT file, and to be edited with caution & thought.
Stroller.
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