On Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:05:30 +0300, Amit Dor-Shifer wrote:

> Still it would incur an etc-update event, wouldn't it? Then, an 
> absent-minded user (e.g. myself) could overwrite configuration when 
> subversion gets upgraded.

Yes, Gentoo gives you the gun, it's up to you to make sure it's not
pointing at your foot.

> I was thinking of maybe creating an 
> /etc/apache2/modules.d/471_mod_dav_svn.conf, which I could then freely 
> modify.

You could, but what if a change to the format in future introduces a
change in the other file incompatible with yours?

Learn to trust yourself with etc-update, you'll only screw up massively
once.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Strike any user to continue