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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Config dir protection
Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 11:41:17
Message-Id: 20010730114117.M14345@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Config dir protection by Mikael Hallendal
1 On Mon, Jul 30, 2001 at 07:20:07PM +0200, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
2 > Dan Armak <danarmak@g.o> writes:
3 >
4 > Gnome stuff put there in /opt/gnome/etc which is a symlink to
5 > /etc/opt/gnome, wouldn't it be good to have /etc/opt/kde and have
6 > /opt/kde/share/config point there?
7 >
8 > What I wonder is what will portage do when it installs into
9 > /opt/gnome/etc and that is a symlink (to a protected directory). Will
10 > it see that the files should be protected or does it think that it's
11 > an unprotected directory? We wan't it to behave in the first way.
12
13 Hallski; I'm sure portage has the bug you just described. Could you add
14 it to the wiki and assign it to the System team? Fixing it will be
15 tricky. The best fix may be to have some standards about how/where to
16 create config directories and what is/isn't allowed to be a symlink.
17
18 Best Regards,
19
20 --
21 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
22 Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
23 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] Config dir protection Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o>