On Sunday 09 July 2006 17:29, Alexander Skwar wrote: > > As I wrote in an other mail: Stop interfering with the actual configfile > > and add the changes to a config.conf.dist file. > > Yep, you wrote that, and I answered that *I* would *NOT* like this. > I like it, that I can use a program right away - at least in a > "default" way. If you had your way, *NO* program which relied > on configuration files would be usable after installation, as > no configuration file could be found. Because of that, I would > not want to happen what you proposed.
Sure, and it's such a big deal to copy the dist to a non dist on first emerge and update the dist version afterwards. My whole point is that etc-update and friends should stay out of my manually adjusted config files once I've touched them as basicly the only thing etc-update is doing now is proposing to return all the settings to the defaults. Even if there is an new setting or something removed it would get lost in all the other fluff. As for software running on pure and unchecked default configs.. That's, especially for more low level software, not the smartest thing to rely on. Gerhard -- [email protected] mailing list
