Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection

[Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@gmail.com>]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> * If no existing file with the intended target name exists, or if 
>   the existing file has identical content to the file to be 
>   installed, the file to be installed is installed as normal.

I would much prefer new files to be treated as if replacing an 
existing zero length file.  When something is installed into /etc, 
etc-update should alert me to this, because logically speaking a 
new configuration file is a big configuration change.

Ideally the package manager would unconditionally respect the config 
protection area, and it should be up to tools like etc-update to 
(configurably) automerge new files and identical files, just like 
it can be configured to automerge trivial/comment changes.

Benno
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