Re: [gentoo-user] Email clients

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On 29/07/2023 15:50, Arsen Arsenović wrote:
>> But I DO have to care about postfix/main.cf. This makes the fundamental blunder
>> of mixing distro defaults and local config in the SAME FILE. So yes it does
>> offer me etc-update. But if I MISS THAT, I've just trashed my local config and
>> have to rebuild it.
> If portage trashes the local file, something went wrong.  That is the
> only thing that I'm trying to get to the bottom of in this thread.
> Application design is irrelevant to that.
> 
> You say that the opportunity to etc-update is offered?  If so, portage
> worked as it should and I'm satisfied, but I'm still confused about how
> the contents got trashed.
> 
Because - with dovecot - I initially made the mistake of editing the 
global file. etc-update over-wrote it.

With postfix, I cannot see any way of NOT editing the global file.

If you go back to what started all this, it was me advising the OP to 
make sure he edited the dovecot local file, not the global one.

And yes, portage is working as it should, but it is working to mitigate 
breakage in the upstream application, namely postfix. Stuff it should 
not need to do.

Cheers,
Wol