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From: Stroller <root@××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@g.o
Cc: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-user] "etc-update" versus Manual update opinions..
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 15:03:23
Message-Id: F4DE20B2-E91F-11D7-9EE5-000A95795F3E@stellar.eclipse.co.uk
1 On 17 Sep 2003, at 1:24 pm, Gwendolyn van der Linden wrote:
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3 > brett holcomb [mailto:brettholcomb@×××××××.net] wrote:
4 >
5 >> Well, if you use etc-update on files like /etc/fstab your
6 >> system will break.
7 >
8 > Exactly. I would vote for keeping /etc/fstab.example in portage, and
9 > making the copying/editing part of the installation procedure (cp
10 > /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab; nano -w /etc/fstab).
11
12 I agree. I wouldn't be surprised if this was changed, were you to file
13 it as a bug. I'm cross posting to gentoo-dev to see what they think.
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15 Stroller.
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