From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21576 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Nov 2003 10:03:21 -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 1743 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 10:03:20 -0000 From: Paul de Vrieze To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:03:03 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <200311032329.36696.gentoo@j-f.dk> <1067929724.5485.15.camel@carbon.internal.lan> In-Reply-To: <1067929724.5485.15.camel@carbon.internal.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1; boundary="Boundary-02=_gl3p/wp3VHSJazs"; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200311041103.12050.pauldv@gentoo.org> X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES, USER_AGENT_KMAIL autolearn=ham version=2.55-uvt4 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.55-uvt4 (1.174.2.19-2003-05-19-exp) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS-ng (Milter interface) Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: d1af8f1b-bd2b-4cdf-b719-2583851035e1 X-Archives-Hash: b10160b58998a1fc076ff396b17044a7 --Boundary-02=_gl3p/wp3VHSJazs Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: signed data Content-Disposition: inline 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 syst= em > > > > 2) Have the option to say that I don't want this config file from packa= ge > > 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 you > > update. Yes, you can just delete them, but it is still annoying. > > I think that would introduce far too much overhead into portage. What about a variable INSTALL mask that would mask all files that cannot be= =20 installed. (/etc/fstab is a good example too) Paul =2D-=20 Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net --Boundary-02=_gl3p/wp3VHSJazs Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Description: signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQA/p3lgbKx5DBjWFdsRAqbyAJsHW9EtWx+xCVus3JcOevJPWqp2XgCguvJd dN33nWI6/SLxDk+k1m9wOe8= =9f6E -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Boundary-02=_gl3p/wp3VHSJazs--