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From: Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Config dir protection
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:56:19
Message-Id: 8766cab8ui.fsf@codefactory.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Config dir protection by Daniel Robbins
1 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o> writes:
2
3 > On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
4 > > Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o> writes:
5 > >
6 > > Gnome stuff put there in /opt/gnome/etc which is a symlink to
7 > >/etc/opt/gnome, wouldn't it be good to have /etc/opt/kde and have
8 > >/opt/kde/share/config point there?
9 > >
10 > > What I wonder is what will portage do when it installs into
11 > >/opt/gnome/etc and that is a symlink (to a protected directory). Will
12 > >it see that the files should be protected or does it think that it's
13 > >an unprotected directory? We wan't it to behave in the first way.
14 >
15 > Hallski; I'm sure portage has the bug you just described. Could you
16 > add it to the wiki and assign it to the System team? Fixing it will
17 > be tricky. The best fix may be to have some standards about how/where
18 > to create config directories and what is/isn't allowed to be a
19 > symlink.
20
21 That might be the best way of doing it yes. We must however fix
22 portage to handle this in some way.
23
24 Regards,
25 Mikael Hallendal
26
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