Vieri Di Paola wrote: > > --- Tom Eastep <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Simon Matter wrote: >> >>> The issue is not Gentoo specific. With rpm based >> distributions, rpm >>> doesn't even try to merge configs. I have my own >> script to do that so I >>> always have the original header after an upgrade. >> Your idea with includes >>> sounds like a possible solution. Maybe there are >> other solutions as well, >>> let's wait for more people to think about. >>> >> My preferred solution is to remove documentation >> from the config files entirely >> and move it somewhere else. I see no point in having >> the conf files INCLUDE the >> documentation or vice versa. >> >> My second choice would be to include Simon's script >> (or a flavor of that script) >> in the product and allow users to generate >> configuration files that have >> documentation in them. > > Just a thought but maybe most of the comments in the > config files could be moved ...
Can we move this to the development list? Seems like a more appropriate forum. Thanks, -Tom -- Tom Eastep \ Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool Shoreline, \ http://shorewall.net Washington USA \ [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP Public Key \ https://lists.shorewall.net/teastep.pgp.key
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