On Mon, Mar 11, 2002 at 01:17:41PM -0500, Yannick Koehler wrote:
> Yannick Koehler wrote:
> >
> >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.
> >
> >Yannick Koehler
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> 
> Another point I have to make here is that there's a lot of files in 
> there and MOST people won't change them.  Therefore the fact that each 
> time someone play in there make 80-90% people force to merge many files 
> is not really friendly.

Friendly, no, but it is proper behavior. Those files are critical to the 
proper operation of the system, and as such changes should be approached
with caution. Even if you as a Gentoo user are not making any customized
changes, it's a very good idea for you to be aware of changes in those 
files - that way, if you do emerge update --world and one of your daemons
breaks, you know if there've been any changes to the init script. It may 
not be a critical issue for you, but it will be for some.

-- 
Matt Beland
matt@rearviewmirror.org
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