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On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 12:48:08PM -0500, Yannick Koehler spoke thusly:
> 
> Guys,
> 
> 	not sure for anyone else but is init.d really need to be protected?  
> 	I mean does someone really change files in that directory (other than 
> adding or removing)?
> 
> 	That dir should always get merged.  It would also get really nice of 
> 	the portage could detect that no changes has been made to the file since 
> its installation and therefore merge it without any issues.
> 
> 	Like if the protected config file's time were saved in a temp files 
> 	that portage would look into before merging to see if the date has or not 
> change since the last install.
>

Yes it needs to be protected. I, for instance, have my own version of
pcmcia in there that I don't want stepped on. Also, I have a couple of
other custom scripts for things not in portage yet; and when they are in
portage, I want to be able to compare the differences before using one
or the other.