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Ric Mesier wrote:
> Yannick,
> 	I appreciate your argument, but you can't equate a start-up script with
> a binary. Yes, the binary is critical but it isn't likely to be
> custom-altered like a start-up script might be. If I emerge package, I
> expect the binaries to be altered. If I created a customer rc script,
> then I want to be the one to clobber it, not have the emerge clobber it.
> 	This whole argument may well be irrelevant anyway. If you want to have
> the scripts clobbered, then feel free to export CONFIG_PROTECT="". It
> seems to be very nicely flexible in this fashion -- more of the genius
> of the portage system.
> 
> Ric
> 

Actually what I was looking for is a way to exclude /etc/init.d forever. 
  But keeping the protection on /etc.

Yannick Koehler