From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14498 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Nov 2003 17:17:20 -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 4019 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 17:17:19 -0000 From: Martin Schlemmer Reply-To: azarah@gentoo.org To: Paul de Vrieze Cc: Gentoo-Dev In-Reply-To: <200311041103.12050.pauldv@gentoo.org> References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <200311032329.36696.gentoo@j-f.dk> <1067929724.5485.15.camel@carbon.internal.lan> <200311041103.12050.pauldv@gentoo.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-07FP8z/rCVQJQeanWs+P" Message-Id: <1067966292.12287.198.camel@nosferatu.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 19:18:12 +0200 Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: 25bbf3fb-dc3e-4eff-9d14-e93934169364 X-Archives-Hash: b09677e9e7546f8c0143404c2dae01d5 --=-07FP8z/rCVQJQeanWs+P Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 12:03, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 08:08, Troy Dack wrote: > > On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 17:31, Jesper Fruergaard Andersen wrote: > > > > 1) Eliminate /etc/issue and rename it if it must be added to the sy= stem > > > > > > 2) Have the option to say that I don't want this config file from pac= kage > > > xxx or any config file from package xxx. It is annoying to have > > > configuration files from a package that you know how to configure > > > yourself and maybe have changed a lot put on the system every time yo= u > > > update. Yes, you can just delete them, but it is still annoying. > > > > I think that would introduce far too much overhead into portage. >=20 > What about a variable INSTALL mask that would mask all files that cannot = be=20 > installed. (/etc/fstab is a good example too) >=20 Use dispatch-conf - it keeps a record what you want to do, and should not bother you again if it is not something major. --=20 Martin Schlemmer Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop/System Team Developer Cape Town, South Africa --=-07FP8z/rCVQJQeanWs+P 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/p99UqburzKaJYLYRAiuDAJ9V18x2BMgIdEFh8j+Su8dJFgdO0QCdGj3X J2XqYRTUMe3LpaVXR9vphjw= =pPkD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-07FP8z/rCVQJQeanWs+P--