From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 36 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Nov 2003 10:12:33 -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 26049 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 10:12:32 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 11:08:43 +0100 From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-Id: <20031104110843.15f6e610.degrenier@easyconnect.fr> In-Reply-To: <1067929724.5485.15.camel@carbon.internal.lan> References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <200311032329.36696.gentoo@j-f.dk> <1067929724.5485.15.camel@carbon.internal.lan> Organization: Fasmz X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.6claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: 4729a750-7d0d-45bd-bfee-dee9e4c7fd0f X-Archives-Hash: a8b653a20f509e096e4aeff0d16d853a On Tue, 04 Nov 2003 18:08:44 +1100 Troy Dack 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. -- TGL. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list