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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] How to prevent dispatch-conf from reverting valid changes
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:19:56
Message-Id: 1348778161.3603.13.camel@belkin4
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] How to prevent dispatch-conf from reverting valid changes by Zac Medico
1 El jue, 27-09-2012 a las 13:21 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
2 > On 09/27/2012 01:16 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 > > El dom, 23-09-2012 a las 11:06 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
4 > >> On 09/23/2012 03:59 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
5 > >>> This looks like could be done with:
6 > >>> # Automerge files comprising only whitespace and/or comments
7 > >>> # (yes or no)
8 > >>> replace-wscomments=no
9 > >>>
10 > >>> , setting it to "yes" in dispatch-conf.conf
11 > >>
12 > >> It seems like that option is only likely to benefit people who have
13 > >> disabled the default config-protect-if-modified FEATURES setting, and
14 > >> I'm not sure that it's a good idea to hide "trivial" differences from
15 > >> these people by default.
16 > >
17 > > Would be a way to detect changes like "0" to "1" or "false" -> "true",
18 > > "yes" -> "no"... ? I think they usually shouldn't be changed :|
19 >
20 > I'm not sure what "problem" you're trying to solve. Since enabling
21 > FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified, I've found the volume of config
22 > updates to be much more manageable, and the configs that I do have to
23 > merge manually don't really bother me.
24
25 Well, I hit the problem when updating from stable openrc to 0.10.5 and
26 needing to reedit some config files as, as normal, I had uncommented
27 some options, modified some defaults... (like keymap, clock settings...)

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