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On 02/28/04 Jeremy Huddleston wrote: |
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> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 02:55, Stuart Herbert wrote: |
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> > I agree with Jason - a config file that hasn't been modified |
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> > shouldn't be config-protected. No information is lost when the file |
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> > is removed, and if a Gentoo user has edited the file, it'll get |
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> > picked up because of the change in timestamp and md5sum. |
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> It should be left. Consider this case: |
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> $ emerge packageA |
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> /etc/services is modified to contain a reference for packageA |
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> $ emerge packageB |
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> /etc/services is modified to contain a reference for packageB |
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Two packages owning the same file is a bug, no matter if the file is |
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CONFIG_PROTECTed or not. |
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Marius |
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Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub |
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In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be |
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Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better. |
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