From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1348 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Sep 2003 13:18:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 24091 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2003 13:18:12 -0000 From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: Jan Krueger Cc: Chris Gianelloni , Steven Elling , Gentoo-Dev , Nick Jones In-Reply-To: <200309071502.27645.jk@microgalaxy.net> References: <200309071429.08427.jk@microgalaxy.net> <1062938697.8455.90.camel@nosferatu.lan> <200309071502.27645.jk@microgalaxy.net> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-gQrXCZug7K9AFcqnN1FD" Message-Id: <1062940896.8455.113.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2003 15:21:36 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions X-Archives-Salt: cd38be5c-7baa-4369-aea9-438d2279dd28 X-Archives-Hash: 7a4d1f741c0f0f77dc09d21a844ee2c3 --=-gQrXCZug7K9AFcqnN1FD Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:02, Jan Krueger wrote: > On Sunday 07 September 2003 12:44, Martin Schlemmer wrote: >=20 > > heh. Choose '2' for etc-update 8) >=20 > Normally i do so. But i dont want to press this key! >=20 > Please understand: Its not about pressing a key. Its about: >=20 > Requiring expensive human interaction when there is no need for it. >=20 And not spending a minute or two every now and then might cause a few hours of debugging. The other side of the issue that nobody really touched (or wanted to) up to now, is that the way of doing things as we do is with a reason. What about proposing (with maybe prototype) a new way of doing what we do now via CONFIG_PROTECT and etc-update/dispatch-conf that will also fit the requirements that you guys want ? Lastly, Nick, what happened to the auto merging of config files ? At some stage, if the file was not changed by the user (/var/cache/edb/config), they should be updated automatically. I am thinking now of the postfix example stuff (/etc/postfix/sample) and the gnome stuff in /etc/sound/events/ and /etc/gnome/, the X kbd stuff, etc have to be merged manually every time, although I never change them ...=20 --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-gQrXCZug7K9AFcqnN1FD Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/WzDgqburzKaJYLYRAgDNAJ4zWGexU5hrXa+pvaImBK5cvIYbVQCfWnH3 G2tKOZZAaow/PQiTupH1e5U= =I4JF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-gQrXCZug7K9AFcqnN1FD--