Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout redefines /etc/fstab

[Drake Wyrm]

On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:33:01PM +0000, in <D16B1A62-57DF-11D8-80B7-000A95795F3E@××××××××××××××××××.uk>, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote:
>
> On Feb 5, 2004, at 8:13 am, Drake Wyrm wrote:
>
> >>The Installation documentation could be changed to say "copy & edit
> >>your fstab like so: cp /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab && nano -w
> >>/etc/fstab`" and users would have the benefit of a back-up of the
> >>original should they ever b0rk theirs up.
> >
> >I have to disagree completely. This is exactly why we use
> >CONFIG_PROTECT
> >and etc-update. Packages *should* install a default, but it shouldn't
> >be called <config-file>.example. Documentation, such as a config file
> >example, belongs in /usr/share/doc/<package>.
>
> Hmmmn... I guess this is a matter of personal taste. I find a .example
> file right next to the one I'm editing SO useful.

Heh. Yeah, I s'pose that is up to personal taste. I was probably having
a human-nature check. "I don't like it, ergo it's wrong." Or something
like that. Plus, the FHS says that examples don't belong there either,
so I have "...and somebody agrees with me!" to fluff my ego.

> When updates to /etc/fstabare required, I feel there's a good case for
> "yelling at the user" using ewarn.

I've yet to find those helpful. They scroll by too quickly, especially
when I have a dozen or so other terms open with other projects. And, of
course, I couldn't be bothered to read the logs.

I wouldn't be opposed to a more intelligent automerge; as long as I
still have eu_automerge="no" in my etc-update.conf, I'm happy. Might
be an interesting project to add some functions to smoothly merge files
like fstab.

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