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Hello |
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I recently installed Gentoo on my uncle's laptop and he was a bit |
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annoyed about needing to run "dispatch-conf" and merge a lot of changes |
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on files nobody ever touched. |
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Looking to /etc/dispatch-conf.conf I noticed options to improve this |
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situation exist, but they are disabled by default. I would want to |
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confirm if they are safe enough or could cause problems. Options are: |
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# Automerge files comprising only whitespace and/or comments |
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# (yes or no) |
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replace-wscomments=no |
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# Automerge files that the user hasn't modified |
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# (yes or no) |
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replace-unmodified=no |
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Looks really surprising to me that "replace-wscomments" is not enabled |
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by default as merging that changes shouldn't hurt at all. About |
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"replace-unmodified", if it works as intended, it should also be safer |
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to get it enabled by default as would prevent breakage if people forgets |
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to run dispatch-conf, reboot and, for example, sees some init.d script |
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fail to start. |
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Thanks a lot for the info |