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* [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] "etc-update" versus Manual update opinions..
       [not found]     <OLEMJKKJBJMMNIPIEKLLGENIDBAA.Gwendolyn.van.der.Linden@technolution.nl>
@ 2003-09-17 15:02 99% ` Stroller
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From: Stroller @ 2003-09-17 15:02 UTC (permalink / raw
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On 17 Sep 2003, at 1:24 pm, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote:

> brett holcomb [mailto:brettholcomb@charter.net] wrote:
>
>> Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
>> system will break.
>
> Exactly.  I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and
> making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp
> /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab; nano -w /etc/fstab).

I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if this was changed, were you to file 
it as a bug. I'm cross posting to gentoo-dev to see what they think.

Stroller.


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