Walter Dnes schrieb:
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:22:29PM +0200, Rafael Fern??ndez L??pez wrote
This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution
that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what
things can be improved in this wonderful distro.
The first thing that I'd change is "etc-update" or "dispatch-conf".
etc-update needs only one change to make it perfect for me, namely the
ability to protect changes to default parameters. Here are 3 examples
from a recent update, where an automaton has no business touching
certain lines...
/etc/conf.d/bootmisc
-WIPE_TMP="yes"
+WIPE_TMP="no"
/etc/conf.d/local.start
# This is a good place to load any misc programs
-# on startup ( use 1>&2 to hide output)
-modprobe snd-virmidi index=1
+# on startup (use &>/dev/null to hide output)
+
/etc/conf.d/rc
@@ -74,7 +89,12 @@
# and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of
# custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about.
-RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes"
+RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"
+
When I say "yes" I mean "yes". When I say "no" I mean "no". And I
don't mean "just until the next update" either. I have reasons for my
settings; please don't act like Windows and assume that you know better
than me.
But actually, they do *NOT* pretend to know better! The way it is
now, is, that you're asked if you wish to accept those changes
And there is no excuse whatsoever for wiping out the custom
settings in /etc/conf.d/local.start
Would it be possible to have some comment declaration like...
#etc-update-protect-begin
WIPE_TMP="yes"
#etc-update-protect-end
...to protect a block of lines against changes, while allowing other
lines to be changed?
Hm - that might actually be a good idea. While there are certain
*parts* in a configuration file that can be updated, there are
certain parts, that shouldn't be.
BUT: How should that actually work? Suppose you had this
"etc-upadte-protect-begin"
and "-end" block. How should diff see, that changes in such a block
are NOT to be considered? I mean, in the original file, there's *no*
such block (and I actually wouldn't want such a block to be in default
configuration files).
Alexander Skwar
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