From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GNvBm-0008Qj-Ut for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:39:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k8EHcnAs024638; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:38:49 GMT Received: from smtp19.wxs.nl (smtp19.wxs.nl [195.121.247.10]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k8EHZFJ4029736 for ; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:35:15 GMT Received: from graskamp (ip51cfa1ef.direct-adsl.nl [81.207.161.239]) by smtp19.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0J5L00I6BFIHL6@smtp19.wxs.nl> for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:35:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 19:34:24 +0200 From: Benno Schulenberg Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection In-reply-to: <1158180161.31657.44.camel@athena.fprintf.net> To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <200609141934.24957.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: KMail/1.9.4 References: <20060911232211.2cb55425@snowdrop.home> <200609131947.13027.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com> <1158180161.31657.44.camel@athena.fprintf.net> X-Archives-Salt: 798b9549-d34b-4aaa-ac96-46453faa4f77 X-Archives-Hash: 62cc4ac911a50d2f3cfa4ba6f4a09280 Daniel Gryniewicz wrote: > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:47 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > > 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. > > I disagree. If there is a sane default configuration for > something (which is most things), I want it installed, so it > works out of the box. I don't want to have to fiddle with config > files to get sshd up and running. There's no need to fiddle: it will run out of the box right after running etc-update. That is, when this tool is extended to deal with new files and configured to automerge them. Benno -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list