From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_MISSING, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from exchange.colubris.com (gate.colubris.com [206.162.167.230]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E01CF20EDBA9 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 2002 12:17:58 -0600 (CST) Received: from colubris.com ([192.168.30.147] RDNS failed) by exchange.colubris.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.3779); Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:11:11 -0500 Message-ID: <3C8CF4C5.1050901@colubris.com> Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 13:17:41 -0500 From: Yannick Koehler User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020218 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] /etc/init.d References: <3C8CEDD8.2000907@colubris.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 11 Mar 2002 18:11:11.0640 (UTC) FILETIME=[2008B180:01C1C928] Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 54c7b6bb-8a51-4ff7-ae79-9d56b447e6be X-Archives-Hash: aa82d848b15a2bbd0f2d209352608294 Yannick Koehler wrote: > > Guys, > > not sure for anyone else but is init.d really need to be protected? > I mean does someone really change files in that directory (other than > adding or removing)? > > That dir should always get merged. It would also get really nice of > the portage could detect that no changes has been made to the file since > its installation and therefore merge it without any issues. > > Like if the protected config file's time were saved in a temp files > that portage would look into before merging to see if the date has or > not change since the last install. > > Yannick Koehler > > _______________________________________________ > gentoo-dev mailing list > gentoo-dev@gentoo.org > http://lists.gentoo.org/mailman/listinfo/gentoo-dev Another point I have to make here is that there's a lot of files in there and MOST people won't change them. Therefore the fact that each time someone play in there make 80-90% people force to merge many files is not really friendly. Yannick Koehler