Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmerging and CONFIG_PROTECT

[Stuart Herbert]

On Saturday 28 February 2004 18:46, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 02:55, Stuart Herbert wrote:
> > I agree with Jason - a config file that hasn't been modified shouldn't be
> > config-protected.  No information is lost when the file is removed, and
> > if a Gentoo user has edited the file, it'll get picked up because of the
> > change in timestamp and md5sum.
>
> It should be left.  Consider this case:
> $ emerge packageA
> /etc/services is modified to contain a reference for packageA
>
> $ emerge packageB
> /etc/services is modified to contain a reference for packageB
>
> $ emerge unmerge packageB
> say good bye to /etc/services


That's a different problem.  You're basically saying that packages have to 
leave config files behind, because at the moment, Portage doesn't have enough 
support for handling dependencies correctly.

That's a Portage limitation (which should be fixed imho), and it doesn't 
affect the new webapp-config code anyway.

Best regards,
Stu
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