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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Config dir protection
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Date: Mon Jul 30 11:42:01 2001
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On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> writes:
> 
> Gnome stuff put there in /opt/gnome/etc which is a symlink to
> /etc/opt/gnome, wouldn't it be good to have /etc/opt/kde and have
> /opt/kde/share/config point there?
> 
> What I wonder is what will portage do when it installs into
> /opt/gnome/etc and that is a symlink (to a protected directory). Will
> it see that the files should be protected or does it think that it's
> an unprotected directory? We wan't it to behave in the first way.

Hallski; I'm sure portage has the bug you just described.  Could you add
it to the wiki and assign it to the System team?  Fixing it will be 
tricky.  The best fix may be to have some standards about how/where to
create config directories and what is/isn't allowed to be a symlink.

Best Regards,

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Gentoo Technologies, Inc.