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On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 6:16 PM, Stroller <stroller@××××××××××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 7 December 2015, at 9:24 p.m., Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> It wasn't really targeted at anybody in particular. It just should be |
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>> clear in the documentation since config protection and merging config |
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>> changes is a big part of administering a Gentoo system. It probably |
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>> should be in the handbook, and it looks like it was at some time in |
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>> the past. |
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>> Config protection isn't some exotic feature that few use (like |
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>> crossdev, prefix, hardened, or glentoo). It is pretty central to the |
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>> whole design of portage, and I believe all the other package managers |
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>> implement it as well in some form. |
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> It seems just a tad exotic to me, as I haven't used or needed it in over 10 years. |
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You never run etc-update or dispatch-conf? If you do, you're using |
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it. You're just using its default configuration and not adding |
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directories to it. |
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> Am I not correct in thinking that a /usr/local/whatever directory would work as I described previously? [1] |
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Only if you patch the program in question to read the file there. And |
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if you're going to go to all that trouble you should really patch it |
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to allow the file to be overridden in /etc which is the more current |
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tradition. And if you're going to do that you might as well just |
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patch the program to install the file the way you want it in the first |
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place. |
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Rich |