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From: Ferris McCormick <fmccor@××××××××.com>
To: Nathaniel <natem@×××××××.net>
Cc: Gentoo-Dev <gentoo-dev@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 16:12:06
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.56.0309081602590.1449@lacewing.inforead.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions by Nathaniel
1 On Mon, 8 Sep 2003, Nathaniel wrote:
2
3 > Regarding the etc-update issue, here are some of my thoughts.
4 >
5 > 1. etc-update should check modify dates and overwrite if not modified.
6 >
7 I haven't followed this very closely because there's so much of it, but
8 this one suddenly woke me up. Just because a file hasn't been modified
9 doesn't imply that it's OK to change it, does it? Maybe it's fine the
10 way it is, but won't be if it gets changed? Appologies if I'm rehashing
11 something.
12
13 Regards,
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Some suggestions Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2@g.o>