El mar, 15-05-2012 a las 08:31 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
> On 05/15/2012 04:15 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> > 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
> 
> FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified is what you really want. We could
> probably enable it by default, but we should ask for comment on the
> gentoo-dev mailing list before doing that.

Didn't know about that option, thanks for pointing it :D

About trying to enable it by default, I think would make sense per
previous exposed reasons (and I am sure there are more examples that
could show that behavior is better than keeping obsolete config files by
default)