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On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:22:29PM +0200, Rafael Fern??ndez L??pez wrote |
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> This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution |
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> that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what |
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> things can be improved in this wonderful distro. |
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> The first thing that I'd change is "etc-update" or "dispatch-conf". |
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etc-update needs only one change to make it perfect for me, namely the |
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ability to protect changes to default parameters. Here are 3 examples |
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from a recent update, where an automaton has no business touching |
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certain lines... |
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/etc/conf.d/bootmisc |
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-WIPE_TMP="yes" |
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+WIPE_TMP="no" |
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/etc/conf.d/local.start |
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# This is a good place to load any misc programs |
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-# on startup ( use 1>&2 to hide output) |
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-modprobe snd-virmidi index=1 |
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+# on startup (use &>/dev/null to hide output) |
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/etc/conf.d/rc |
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@@ -74,7 +89,12 @@ |
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# and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of |
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# custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about. |
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-RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" |
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+RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" |
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When I say "yes" I mean "yes". When I say "no" I mean "no". And I |
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don't mean "just until the next update" either. I have reasons for my |
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settings; please don't act like Windows and assume that you know better |
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than me. And there is no excuse whatsoever for wiping out the custom |
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settings in /etc/conf.d/local.start |
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Would it be possible to have some comment declaration like... |
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#etc-update-protect-begin |
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WIPE_TMP="yes" |
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#etc-update-protect-end |
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...to protect a block of lines against changes, while allowing other |
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lines to be changed? |
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 |
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My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca |
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