Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions

[Sami Näätänen]

On Sunday 07 September 2003 16:21, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 17:02, Jan Krueger wrote:
> > On Sunday 07 September 2003 12:44, Martin Schlemmer wrote:
> > > heh.  Choose '2' for etc-update 8)
> >
> > Normally i do so. But i dont want to press this key!
> >
> > Please understand: Its not about pressing a key. Its about:
> >
> > Requiring expensive human interaction when there is no need for it.
>
> And not spending a minute or two every now and then might cause a
> few hours of debugging.
>
> The other side of the issue that nobody really touched (or wanted to)
> up to now, is that the way of doing things as we do is with a reason.
> What about proposing (with maybe prototype) a new way of doing what
> we do now via CONFIG_PROTECT and etc-update/dispatch-conf that will
> also fit the requirements that you guys want ?
>
> Lastly, Nick, what happened to the auto merging of config files ?
> At some stage, if the file was not changed by the user
> (/var/cache/edb/config), they should be updated automatically.
> I am thinking now of the postfix example stuff (/etc/postfix/sample)
> and the gnome stuff in /etc/sound/events/ and /etc/gnome/, the
> X kbd stuff, etc have to be merged manually every time, although I
> never change them ...

I get only couple of files from even big world -Du updates, because I 
use CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK to get rid of unnecessary file updates.

CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/init.d /etc/X11/xkb /etc/X11/xdm 
/etc/X11/xserver /etc/X11/xsm /etc/X11/xinit /etc/env.d"

And if I need global env settings I simply add my own file to env.d 
directory.

So I for example have 00locale file in there, which set LC_CTYPE for my 
system.




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