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From: "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@waltdnes.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved
Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2006 16:37:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060708203707.GB6713@waltdnes.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44AEB475.8000702@maestroprogramador.com>

On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:22:29PM +0200, Rafael Fern??ndez L??pez wrote

>   This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution
> that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what
> things can be improved in this wonderful distro.
> 
>   The first thing that I'd change is "etc-update" or "dispatch-conf".

  etc-update needs only one change to make it perfect for me, namely the
ability to protect changes to default parameters.  Here are 3 examples
from a recent update, where an automaton has no business touching
certain lines...

/etc/conf.d/bootmisc
-WIPE_TMP="yes"
+WIPE_TMP="no"

/etc/conf.d/local.start
 # This is a good place to load any misc programs
-# on startup ( use 1>&2 to hide output)
-modprobe snd-virmidi index=1
+# on startup (use &>/dev/null to hide output)
+

/etc/conf.d/rc
@@ -74,7 +89,12 @@
 # and restore it on startup.  This is useful if you have a lot of
 # custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about.

-RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes"
+RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no"
+

  When I say "yes" I mean "yes".  When I say "no" I mean "no".  And I
don't mean "just until the next update" either.  I have reasons for my
settings; please don't act like Windows and assume that you know better
than me.  And there is no excuse whatsoever for wiping out the custom
settings in /etc/conf.d/local.start

  Would it be possible to have some comment declaration like...

#etc-update-protect-begin
WIPE_TMP="yes"
#etc-update-protect-end

...to protect a block of lines against changes, while allowing other
lines to be changed?

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltdnes@waltdnes.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1
My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-07-08 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-07 19:22 [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved Rafael Fernández López
2006-07-07 20:34 ` gentuxx
2006-07-07 21:11 ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-07-07 21:12 ` Richard Fish
2006-07-07 21:31   ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-07-07 21:42   ` [gentoo-user] " dnlt0hn5ntzhbqkv51
2006-07-07 21:46   ` [gentoo-user] " leszek
2006-07-07 23:00   ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-08  0:34     ` Richard Fish
2006-07-08  1:37       ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-11  1:32       ` Dale
2006-07-08  7:25     ` Justin R Findlay
2006-07-08 14:42       ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-08 17:59         ` Justin R Findlay
2006-07-08  9:27     ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-08 14:45       ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-08 22:15         ` Ryan Tandy
2006-07-09  2:16           ` [gentoo-user][OT]Things " Daniel Iliev
2006-07-09  2:46             ` [gentoo-user]MPlayer: CPU Detection? (was: [OT]Things that can be improved) Ryan Tandy
2006-07-09  3:41               ` [gentoo-user]MPlayer: CPU Detection? Daniel Iliev
2006-07-09  4:40                 ` Ryan Tandy
2006-07-09 13:25                   ` [gentoo-user][OT]MPlayer: " Daniel Iliev
2006-07-07 21:37 ` [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-07-08  2:23   ` Zac Medico
2006-07-08  8:00     ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-07-08  9:31       ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-08 20:32         ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-07-08 21:00           ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-08 21:10             ` Hemmann, Volker Armin
2006-07-08 22:25               ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-08  0:47 ` Lord Sauron
2006-07-08  1:09   ` Donnie Berkholz
2006-07-08  3:54     ` Lord Sauron
2006-07-08  2:20   ` Zac Medico
2006-07-08  2:49     ` Richard Fish
2006-07-08  4:00     ` Lord Sauron
2006-07-08  4:14       ` Richard Fish
2006-07-08  4:18         ` Lord Sauron
2006-07-08  4:38       ` Zac Medico
2006-07-08  4:44         ` Lord Sauron
2006-07-08 18:24       ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-08 12:28 ` Rafael Fernández López
2006-07-08 15:02   ` Daniel Iliev
2006-07-08 18:30   ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-08 19:03     ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-08 21:03     ` Rafael Fernández López
2006-07-09 15:18       ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-09 17:47         ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-09 18:18           ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-09 21:45             ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-11 17:22             ` Devon Miller
2006-07-09 15:21       ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-09 22:46       ` kashani
2006-07-08 18:15 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-08 18:18 ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-08 20:37 ` Walter Dnes [this message]
2006-07-08 20:59   ` Gerhard Hoogterp
2006-07-08 22:26     ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-09 15:29     ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-09 15:53       ` David Dalrymple
2006-07-09 16:03         ` Jeremy Olexa
2006-07-10  0:47           ` David Dalrymple
2006-07-09 16:26         ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-09 17:26         ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2006-07-09 18:50       ` Gerhard Hoogterp
2006-07-09 19:20         ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-11 11:05       ` Walter Dnes
2006-07-11 11:09         ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-11 15:07           ` Dale
2006-07-11 16:26             ` Ryan Tandy
2006-07-11 16:35         ` Daniel da Veiga
2006-07-11 19:07           ` Gerhard Hoogterp
2006-07-11 19:56             ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-11 20:33               ` Allan Gottlieb
2006-07-11 21:01                 ` Dale
2006-07-11 23:43                   ` Allan Gottlieb
2006-07-11 21:14                 ` Benno Schulenberg
2006-07-11 20:30             ` Hans-Werner Hilse
2006-07-09 15:25   ` Alexander Skwar
2006-07-12  0:12 ` David Corbin
2006-07-12  2:21   ` Richard Fish
2006-07-27 13:34 ` Enrico Weigelt
2006-07-27 14:05   ` Neil Bothwick
2006-07-28  7:41   ` [gentoo-user] " Remy Blank

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