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