Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email)

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>]

On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 18:08:44 +1100
Troy Dack <tad@gentoo.org> wrote:

> > 2) Have the option to say that I don't want this config file from
> > package 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.
> 

I don't think so. In fact, I've already started to add a MERGE_EXCLUDE
(and MERGE_EXCLUDE_MASK) to portage. It's almost finished, and
really won't be a "big" change to portage. In theory, it may slow down
the merge process if you have many entries in this variables, but I
personnaly have not seen the difference during my tests. 

  I've started this because of the discussion that happens here a few
days ago, where some people asked how to avoid portage installing
info, man, or doc files. But using it to prohibit /etc/issue or
/etc/cron.daily would work just the same.

I will try to finish it tonight, and will probably post back tomorrow.

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TGL.

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