Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] About some settings to auto-replace with dispatch-conf

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac