Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d

[Ric Mesier <kilroy@WasHere.COM>]

Yannick,
	I appreciate your argument, but you can't equate a start-up script with
a binary. Yes, the binary is critical but it isn't likely to be
custom-altered like a start-up script might be. If I emerge package, I
expect the binaries to be altered. If I created a customer rc script,
then I want to be the one to clobber it, not have the emerge clobber it.
	This whole argument may well be irrelevant anyway. If you want to have
the scripts clobbered, then feel free to export CONFIG_PROTECT="". It
seems to be very nicely flexible in this fashion -- more of the genius
of the portage system.

Ric


On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 14:32, Yannick Koehler wrote:

> 
> Actually I think it's even worse treating those files as config. 
> Because new users, the one that you always want to get in a distro may 
> be running pretty old script as they may not be aware on how to do the 
> merge step manually.
> 

I suspect your argument falls down here. New users more than likely
haven't altered any of the scripts there and as a result, they may be
able to unprotect the system when they do an emerge. 

Bottom line is, it seems to be up to the individual user.

Ric