From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1F8JPS-0004hh-23 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:45:10 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k1CFi6YJ030966; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:44:06 GMT Received: from heisenberg.zen.co.uk (heisenberg.zen.co.uk [212.23.3.141]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k1CFeDU2032489 for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:40:14 GMT Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=desiato.digimed.co.uk) by heisenberg.zen.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1F8JKf-0002Vb-KT for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:40:13 +0000 Received: from hactar.digimed.co.uk (hactar.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.2]) by desiato.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 049D814249BB for ; Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:40:08 +0000 (GMT) Date: Sun, 12 Feb 2006 15:40:05 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC Message-ID: <20060212154005.59cb4ccf@hactar.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <43EF3A25.9050301@ultratux.org> References: <43EF3A25.9050301@ultratux.org> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0 (GTK+ 2.8.11; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary=Sig_mhCNy0yS8Y6GoBndJXyuS4O; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Originating-Heisenberg-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: 99da0695-fe7c-4f8f-a043-8d1a95aae76e X-Archives-Hash: bceb2aa3cd2d8529f3e891cee715458e --Sig_mhCNy0yS8Y6GoBndJXyuS4O Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3Dno --=20 Neil Bothwick Spock, I though you were dead!" "I rebooted, Captain." --Sig_mhCNy0yS8Y6GoBndJXyuS4O Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD71bYum4al0N1GQMRAve5AJ44qvaDamcR7fi8dpNViGdqGkB2EQCeLmLh 34JSii37MkOHx2CwqTIlvyY= =WAj1 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_mhCNy0yS8Y6GoBndJXyuS4O-- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list