From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27162 invoked by uid 1002); 4 Nov 2003 11:49:28 -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 11230 invoked from network); 4 Nov 2003 11:49:28 -0000 Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 12:49:26 +0100 From: Christian Birchinger To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Message-ID: <20031104114926.GA8710@netswarm.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3FA5AF6F.5030501@codewordt.co.uk> <200311032329.36696.gentoo@j-f.dk> <1067929724.5485.15.camel@carbon.internal.lan> <200311041103.12050.pauldv@gentoo.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200311041103.12050.pauldv@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Accepted-File-Formats: ASCII, .ps, .rtf, .pdf - *NO* Micosoft Office files please X-Info: No HTML mails please. text/plain is the official email format Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Vanilla behaviour in Gentoo Linux (long email) X-Archives-Salt: bcc4eb10-6209-4c38-a321-a0e6724364a3 X-Archives-Hash: 1958e35c8b72d51325d1b805433eade0 Yes, the same feature would be used to block installs into /usr/share/doc or /usr/share/info. I think we called it INSTALL_PROTECT in the previous discution about "noman" etc. I know a totaly different topic but could be done with the same portage feature. On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:03:03AM +0100, Paul de Vrieze wrote: Content-Description: signed data > 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 system > > > > > > 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. > > What about a variable INSTALL mask that would mask all files that cannot be > installed. (/etc/fstab is a good example too) > > Paul > > -- > Paul de Vrieze > Gentoo Developer > Mail: pauldv@gentoo.org > Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list