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From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
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Date: 09 Sep 2003 11:14:26 -0400
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions
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On Mon, 2003-09-08 at 12:06, Ferris McCormick wrote:
> On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Nathaniel wrote:
>=20
> > Regarding the etc-update issue, here are some of my thoughts.
> >=20
> > 1. etc-update should check modify dates and overwrite if not modified.
> >=20
> I haven't followed this very closely because there's so much of it, but
> this one suddenly woke me up.  Just because a file hasn't been modified
> doesn't imply that it's OK to change it, does it?  Maybe it's fine the
> way it is, but won't be if it gets changed?  Appologies if I'm rehashing
> something.

All of the settings from a Gentoo package are supposed to work "out of
the box".  If the file has not been modified, then it is using the
default setup from Gentoo.  It should be able to continue using the
default setup and work properly.  If it does not, then it is a bug and
should be treated as such.
--=20
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Games Team

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