Re: [gentoo-dev] Config dir protection

[Mikael Hallendal <hallski@gentoo.org>]

Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org> writes:

> On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> > Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org> writes:
> > 
> > Gnome stuff put there in /opt/gnome/etc which is a symlink to
> >/etc/opt/gnome, wouldn't it be good to have /etc/opt/kde and have
> >/opt/kde/share/config point there?
> > 
> > What I wonder is what will portage do when it installs into
> >/opt/gnome/etc and that is a symlink (to a protected directory). Will
> >it see that the files should be protected or does it think that it's
> >an unprotected directory? We wan't it to behave in the first way.
> 
> Hallski; I'm sure portage has the bug you just described.  Could you
> add it to the wiki and assign it to the System team?  Fixing it will
> be tricky.  The best fix may be to have some standards about how/where
> to create config directories and what is/isn't allowed to be a
> symlink.

That might be the best way of doing it yes. We must however fix
portage to handle this in some way. 

Regards,
Mikael Hallendal

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