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On Tuesday 08 Dec 2015 03:29:45 Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> |
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wrote: |
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> > That's like telling your grandma, "you don't know what DNS is? this is |
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> > internet 101 - you use DNS all the time". |
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> > I have not needed to add directories to CONFIG_PROTECT, or alter it in |
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> > any way, in over 10 years of using Gentoo. |
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> Fair enough, neither have I. I just meant that configruation |
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> protection itself is a fairly standard and well-used capability. I |
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> get that somebody might not recognize the name for it or the meaning |
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> of the environment variable. |
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Actually, I recall that pre-2003/04 we used to edit the list of protected |
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directories. I think that the reason at the time was that etc-update would |
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take too long to scan all of them, so the user was encourage to limit these |
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according to preference. |
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There may be some old threads lurking around the M/L archives on this topic. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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