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From: Benno Schulenberg <benno.schulenberg@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 17:39:51
Message-Id: 200609141934.24957.benno.schulenberg@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] RFC: Package Manager Specification: configuration protection by Daniel Gryniewicz
1 Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
2 > On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:47 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
3 > > Ideally the package manager would unconditionally respect the
4 > > config protection area, and it should be up to tools like
5 > > etc-update to (configurably) automerge new files and identical
6 > > files, just like it can be configured to automerge
7 > > trivial/comment changes.
8 >
9 > I disagree. If there is a sane default configuration for
10 > something (which is most things), I want it installed, so it
11 > works out of the box. I don't want to have to fiddle with config
12 > files to get sshd up and running.
13
14 There's no need to fiddle: it will run out of the box right after
15 running etc-update. That is, when this tool is extended to deal
16 with new files and configured to automerge them.
17
18 Benno
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