Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 17:31:38
Message-Id: 20060629182154.74e39257@hactar.digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update by Gerhard Hoogterp
1 On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 18:38:49 +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp wrote:
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3 > The interface oh well.. but what I dislike about etc-update (and it's
4 > replacements afaik) is this tendency to want to restore files to their
5 > original state.. One keypress to many, one moment of not paying enough
6 > attention an whee.. gone is fstab, XF86Org or some other important file.
7
8 There was a patch for dispatch-conf that let you specify files to ignore,
9 which was useful for protecting the likes of fstab (IMO baselayout should
10 bot contain an fstab file, if your system is running, you NEVER need a
11 new one).
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15 Neil Bothwick
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17 Define UNIVERSE; give two examples.

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