I would make the point that on a number of occasions, bugs have caused
configuration files to be lost.  Its happened to fstab,
modules.autoload, PHP/MOD_PHP etc in the past.

As gentoo is very dynamic distro, I think a copy of /etc and any other
critical files would be an essential, and advise any gentoo user to have
an up to date copy squirrelled away somewhere.

BillK


On Sun, 2004-02-15 at 12:56, Stroller wrote:
> 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.



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