Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:37:41 +0100, Maarten wrote:

> What tickles me the most about the current process is that one sometimes
> gets huge lists of updated files by updating a single package. A package
> which may have never been used, or at least configured, by the user.
> For instance, updating webmin, or snort, yields many many ._cfg files an
> average user knows little about, and does not care about since he never
> tweaked them. In other words, they are in their distibution-default
> state, never edited.  It stands to reason everyone would want all those
> files overwritten by the new ones, is it not ?

Not. What is the default settings change. You may not have edited the
config because the old defaults were what you wanted, but the new
defaults may break your system. Your old config file, with the settings
you needed, has now gone to bit heaven and you are left with a broken
system.

Of course, Gentoo is all about choice, so if you want to take that
change, you can set dispatch-conf to do what you want.

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


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Spock, I though you were dead!"
"I rebooted, Captain."

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