On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 11:06 AM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote:
No sir, I was not telling a half-truth.
If the default configuration is stored in /lib/udev/rules.d for example,
and you can override that default by dropping files of the same name in
/etc/udev/rules.d, I don't see
On 02/03/14 19:51, William Hubbs wrote:
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 05:49:59PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
Sure at some point you have to make things evolve but this upstream
solution simply isn't nice for its users.
That may be, but I don't think it's a distribution's
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 12:35 AM, Wyatt Epp wyatt@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 11:06 AM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org
wrote:
No sir, I was not telling a half-truth.
If the default configuration is stored in /lib/udev/rules.d for example,
and you can override that
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 11:10 AM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote:
Many of the config files are large, and splitting them into segments makes
it easier to read.
Ah, no, impedance mismatch. Split configs are easy-- /etc/env.d/ took
something like two minutes to grasp years ago.
To clarify,
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Wyatt Epp wyatt@gmail.com wrote:
If the _only_ way to get the config for something is ever to run a
specific command specifically tailored for that purpose, then it's
evidence of a truly shocking and advanced sadism (not to mention a
complete and utter
On 03/03/14 23:13, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Wyatt Epp wyatt@gmail.com wrote:
If the _only_ way to get the config for something is ever to run a
specific command specifically tailored for that purpose, then it's
evidence of a truly shocking and advanced sadism
Everyone on this list really except perhaps Duncan really needs to
learn to trim quotess. Kthx.
Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
Sure at some point you have to make things evolve but this upstream
solution simply isn't nice for its users.
That may be, but I don't think it's a distribution's
On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 05:49:59PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote:
Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote:
Sure at some point you have to make things evolve but this upstream
solution simply isn't nice for its users.
That may be, but I don't think it's a distribution's responsibility
to try to own that
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 1:31 PM, Alec Warner anta...@gentoo.org wrote:
gconf, dconf, polkit, dbus, all do stuff like this. I actually find the
solution somewhat elegant from my side as a sysadmin.
I think the right approach depends on the degree to which the file
requires tweaking.
For 99% of
Steven J. Long posted on Sat, 01 Mar 2014 06:48:54 + as excerpted:
I for one prefer a distro to do a bit of work and make my life easier,
since it makes life easier for everyone who uses the distro. Why the
hell should I care if some bindist can't etc-update? WTF does that have
to do with
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:48:54AM +, Steven J. Long wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:31:08PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:47:05PM -0500, Wyatt Epp wrote:
But let's be real here: if I install something and
want to configure its system-wide bits, the first
Le samedi 01 mars 2014 à 10:06 -0600, William Hubbs a écrit :
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:48:54AM +, Steven J. Long wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:31:08PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:47:05PM -0500, Wyatt Epp wrote:
But let's be real here: if I install
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 8:06 AM, William Hubbs willi...@gentoo.org wrote:
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:48:54AM +, Steven J. Long wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:31:08PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:47:05PM -0500, Wyatt Epp wrote:
But let's be real here: if I
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 07:20:24AM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
If only Portage had supported checking if files from /usr were used by
files installed to /
Hard to create check for every case, but something like libraries and NEEDED
entries (bug 443590) would have been a start
But there
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:31:08PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote:
On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:47:05PM -0500, Wyatt Epp wrote:
But let's be real here: if I install something and
want to configure its system-wide bits, the first place I go is ALWAYS
/etc. When I don't find it there, with the
On 01/03/14 08:40, Steven J. Long wrote:
On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 07:20:24AM +0200, Samuli Suominen wrote:
If only Portage had supported checking if files from /usr were used by
files installed to /
Hard to create check for every case, but something like libraries and NEEDED
entries (bug
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