From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15473 invoked by uid 1002); 7 Sep 2003 15:25:29 -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 10066 invoked from network); 7 Sep 2003 15:25:29 -0000 From: Sami =?iso-8859-15?q?N=E4=E4t=E4nen?= To: Gentoo-Dev Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2003 18:22:28 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: <200309071502.27645.jk@microgalaxy.net> <1062940896.8455.113.camel@nosferatu.lan> In-Reply-To: <1062940896.8455.113.camel@nosferatu.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309071822.28801.sn.ml@bayminer.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions X-Archives-Salt: 31c51da4-2649-4975-a581-93573c78e2de X-Archives-Hash: 27fe946ad3d07af19d1ecb2a47d565c8 On Sunday 07 September 2003 16:21, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:02, Jan Krueger wrote: > > On Sunday 07 September 2003 12:44, Martin Schlemmer wrote: > > > heh. Choose '2' for etc-update 8) > > > > Normally i do so. But i dont want to press this key! > > > > Please understand: Its not about pressing a key. Its about: > > > > Requiring expensive human interaction when there is no need for it. > > And not spending a minute or two every now and then might cause a > few hours of debugging. > > The other side of the issue that nobody really touched (or wanted to) > up to now, is that the way of doing things as we do is with a reason. > What about proposing (with maybe prototype) a new way of doing what > we do now via CONFIG_PROTECT and etc-update/dispatch-conf that will > also fit the requirements that you guys want ? > > Lastly, Nick, what happened to the auto merging of config files ? > At some stage, if the file was not changed by the user > (/var/cache/edb/config), they should be updated automatically. > I am thinking now of the postfix example stuff (/etc/postfix/sample) > and the gnome stuff in /etc/sound/events/ and /etc/gnome/, the > X kbd stuff, etc have to be merged manually every time, although I > never change them ... I get only couple of files from even big world -Du updates, because I use CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK to get rid of unnecessary file updates. CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/X11/xkb /etc/X11/xdm /etc/X11/xserver /etc/X11/xsm /etc/X11/xinit /etc/env.d" And if I need global env settings I simply add my own file to env.d directory. So I for example have 00locale file in there, which set LC_CTYPE for my system. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list