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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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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