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Dale schreef: |
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> Hi, I switched to udev a while back and have some old devfs files |
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> left in /etc. Here is a list: |
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>> /etc/devfs.d /etc/devfs.d/.keep /etc/modules.devfs.256 |
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>> /etc/config-archive/etc/udev/scripts/ide-devfs.sh |
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>> /etc/config-archive/etc/udev/scripts/ide-devfs.sh.dist |
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>> /etc/modprobe.devfs /etc/modprobe.devfs.256 /etc/modprobe.devfs.old |
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>> /etc/modules.devfs /etc/devfsd.conf |
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> Can I get rid of these files and not kill anything? I already |
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> unmerged devfsd though. It just doesn't get rid of the config files. |
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> It would be nice of there was a option to tell it too. |
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There is, of course, "an option to tell it to"; you just don't know |
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about it :-) . |
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You might want to have a closer look at the Gentoo Documentation pages, |
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most specifically |
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Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Environment Variables at |
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http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=5 . |
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In any case, the deal is configuration files are protected by default. |
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That means that when you unmerge a program (or merge a new version of |
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the same program), the configuration files will not be automatically |
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overwritten (or deleted, for that matter). This saves you trouble, |
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because it doesn't screw up your config, if you later reinstall the |
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program, or when you update a program that had a complex configuration. |
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However, it also means that things such as what happened to you can |
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happen (config files that you want deleted don't get deleted automatically). |
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But the thing is, such files are important enough that they shouldn't be |
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just deleted like it's nothing. That's the Gentoo design and the Gentoo |
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way; an action like deleting /etc/devfsd can have sweeping consequences |
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if the system is not prepared to pick up the ball with udev-- forcing |
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you to delete it manually is both a way of making sure that you know you |
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did it, and also making sure you know what you're doing before you do it |
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(90% of the users ask the list before taking any action, which is fine-- |
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we *want* people to know what they're doing and have a healthy respect |
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for their own power to bork their system, so good you ask first!) |
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In any case, yes you can override the setting (of *course*, this is |
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Gentoo!) to delete certain (or all) protected files after an unmerge of |
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various programs; but now you have to look up how to do that, and that |
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means you have to read a bit about the consequences of your proposed |
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action before taking it (since you don't know how to take it before you |
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read a bit), and then you have a much better chance of not doing |
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something that's going to come back and bite you in the butt later, but |
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will instead make your system more effective for your usage pattern for |
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the future. |
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Holly |
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