Bill Six wrote:
> I recently ran "emerge --update world". After doing
> so, I ran etc-update to update the config files, and
> used the -3 options to automerge.
Don't do that. It doesn't intelligently pick and choose which bits of code
to merge into your /etc files. Oh no. Two words: CLOBBER. Your finely
tuned /etc files vanish... replaced by the tarball default configuration
file.
Using automerge with etc-update, I have even clobbered the fstab file... and
I almost made the system unusable.
When you use etc-update, always inspect the changes it wants to make. Often
times you'll find that you don't want the update at all.
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