Chris Gianelloni wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 12:46 +0100, Tim Weber wrote:
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>>On Tuesday 16 November 2004 18:21, Chris Barker wrote:
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>>>By the way, it might be a good idea to put a comment in the standard
>>>fstab to indicate that those need to be replaced with the appropriate
>>>entries.
>>>      
>>>
>>Please file a bug at http://bugs.gentoo.org/.
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>>
>
>A better solution is (as always, in my opinion with system-affecting
>files such as this) to instead provide a fstab.example, or not to
>provide an fstab via portage, at all.
>
>After all, one has to create the fstab during install anyway, so why
>provide a "template" that can easily break a person's system if they
>aren't careful?
>
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>
I second that -- a well commented fstab.example that wouldn't overwrite 
your fstab would be excellent. 

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