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hi, im new in the list, im luis from argentina, |
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i send this mail again because the first was to tony, there is |
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somthing wrong with the reply here :S |
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not providing an fstab at all would make some ppl crazy trying to |
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rememmber the syntaxis of the file, also an script to make one wont be |
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bad idea, after all there is a genkernel, why not a genfstab |
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On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 09:53:57 +0000, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. |
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<bss03@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Friday 19 November 2004 07:58 am, Tim Weber <Tim Weber |
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> <gentoo.list@×××××××.de>> wrote: |
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> > On Friday 19 November 2004 05:33, Drake Wyrm wrote: |
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> > > At 2004-11-18T09:03:58-0500, Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o> |
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> > > wrote: <snip> |
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> > > |
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> > > > A better solution is (as always, in my opinion with |
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> > > > system-affecting files such as this) to instead provide a |
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> > > > fstab.example, or not to provide an fstab via portage, at all. |
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> > > |
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> > > I rather have to disagree. *.example files and other |
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> > > documentation-related goodies in my /etc directory annoy me, but a |
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> > > well-commented config file with some reasonable defaults is a dream |
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> > > to work with. |
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> > I agree absolutely. I was a bit disappointed when it happened to |
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> > make.conf; because I really liked, for example, the list of allowed |
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> > -march settings. And I think that you will scare users (especially the |
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> > genkernel type) if you let them write their fstab completely by hand. |
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> > Of course, they wouldn't really need to write it by themselves, because |
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> > they'd have some .example files. But I strongly dislike the idea of |
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> > putting them inside /etc. |
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> Agreed. While I would rather have an example file instead of potentially |
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> overwriting my customized config files, I don't want the clogging up my |
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> directory listings. |
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> Example files should go elsewhere, files that must be customized (like |
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> fstab) should not be in portage, and the others -- well, I can live with |
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> etc-update asking me everytime. |
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> Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@××××××××××.com> |
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> ICQ: 514984 YM: DaTwinkDaddy AIM: DaTwinkDaddy |
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> http://csce.uark.edu/~bss03 |
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Luis Diaz - Un obsesivo con proyectos! :oP |
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