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From: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default?
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 10:51:53
Message-Id: CAGfcS_kwQDGxMJQE=iuLwtq7zgSS7nd2r6HKVL72mAM2QXCaDA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: RFC: Enable FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified by default? by Fabio Erculiani
1 On Wed, May 16, 2012 at 5:02 AM, Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o> wrote:
2 > I implemented this feature in Entropy long time ago (2009 iirc) and
3 > enabled it by default as well.
4 > We never had a single issue. Users seem quite happy about it.
5 >
6
7 This is also the default behavior with the cfg-update alternative to
8 dispatch-conf - unmodified files are just replaced. Never had a
9 problem with it. 90% of the time these are files I've never even
10 looked at.
11
12 Will the new option remove files automatically as well? I've been
13 getting warnings on boot that I suspect are the result of ancient udev
14 rules files that never got removed due to protection. I've been
15 meaning to investigate, but I need to figure out which if any I did
16 actually modify.
17
18 Rich