From: Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@gentoo.org>
To: Stroller <root@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
Cc: gentoo-user@gentoo.org, gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] "etc-update" versus Manual update opinions..
Date: 17 Sep 2003 11:46:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1063813594.3092.42.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F4DE20B2-E91F-11D7-9EE5-000A95795F3E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>
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On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 11:02, Stroller wrote:
> On 17 Sep 2003, at 1:24 pm, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote:
>
> > brett holcomb [mailto:brettholcomb@charter.net] wrote:
> >
> >> Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
> >> system will break.
> >
> > Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and
> > making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp
> > /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab; nano -w /etc/fstab).
>
> I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if this was changed, were you to file
> it as a bug. I'm cross posting to gentoo-dev to see what they think.
>
> Stroller.
I think it is a great idea.
You definitely have my support.
--
Chris Gianelloni
Developer, Gentoo Linux
Games Team
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2003-09-17 15:02 ` [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] "etc-update" versus Manual update opinions Stroller
2003-09-17 15:46 ` Chris Gianelloni [this message]
2003-09-17 17:09 ` Alexander Gretencord
2003-09-17 18:11 ` John Mylchreest
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