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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@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 21:19:39
Message-Id: 5064B567.7050900@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] How to prevent dispatch-conf from reverting valid changes by Pacho Ramos
1 On 09/27/2012 01:16 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
2 > El dom, 23-09-2012 a las 11:06 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
3 >> On 09/23/2012 03:59 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
4 >>> This looks like could be done with:
5 >>> # Automerge files comprising only whitespace and/or comments
6 >>> # (yes or no)
7 >>> replace-wscomments=no
8 >>>
9 >>> , setting it to "yes" in dispatch-conf.conf
10 >>
11 >> It seems like that option is only likely to benefit people who have
12 >> disabled the default config-protect-if-modified FEATURES setting, and
13 >> I'm not sure that it's a good idea to hide "trivial" differences from
14 >> these people by default.
15 >
16 > Would be a way to detect changes like "0" to "1" or "false" -> "true",
17 > "yes" -> "no"... ? I think they usually shouldn't be changed :|
18
19 I'm not sure what "problem" you're trying to solve. Since enabling
20 FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified, I've found the volume of config
21 updates to be much more manageable, and the configs that I do have to
22 merge manually don't really bother me.
23 --
24 Thanks,
25 Zac

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