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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@×××××××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24
Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 15:45:17
Message-Id: 20070505164121.306dda9a@snowflake
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [news-item] Paludis 0.24 by Jakub Moc
1 On Sat, 05 May 2007 17:34:39 +0200
2 Jakub Moc <jakub@g.o> wrote:
3 > Stephen Bennett napsal(a):
4 > > On Sat, 5 May 2007 17:12:03 +0200
5 > > Marius Mauch <genone@g.o> wrote:
6 > >
7 > >
8 > >> a g42 news item shouldn't be issued for minor syntax
9 > >> changes in config files that could just as well handled completely
10 > >> automatically in postinst/CONFIG_PROTECT.
11 > >
12 > > And these changes can't be handled that way, since paludis configs
13 > > can and do exist in home directories as well as in /etc.
14 >
15 > Shrug; frankly just a matter of adding $HOME/.paludis/etc or whatever
16 > (example) to CONFIG_PROTECT... Why it couldn't be done?
17
18 Because a) the package manager touching anything in $HOME is extremely
19 bad form and b) configuration directories are non-enumerable.
20
21 --
22 Ciaran McCreesh

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