Hello

I recently installed Gentoo on my uncle's laptop and he was a bit
annoyed about needing to run "dispatch-conf" and merge a lot of changes
on files nobody ever touched.

Looking to /etc/dispatch-conf.conf I noticed options to improve this
situation exist, but they are disabled by default. I would want to
confirm if they are safe enough or could cause problems. Options are:

# Automerge files comprising only whitespace and/or comments
# (yes or no)
replace-wscomments=no

# Automerge files that the user hasn't modified
# (yes or no)
replace-unmodified=no

Looks really surprising to me that "replace-wscomments" is not enabled
by default as merging that changes shouldn't hurt at all. About
"replace-unmodified", if it works as intended, it should also be safer
to get it enabled by default as would prevent breakage if people forgets
to run dispatch-conf, reboot and, for example, sees some init.d script
fail to start.

Thanks a lot for the info