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On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:37:41 +0100, Maarten wrote: |
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> What tickles me the most about the current process is that one sometimes |
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> gets huge lists of updated files by updating a single package. A package |
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> which may have never been used, or at least configured, by the user. |
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> For instance, updating webmin, or snort, yields many many ._cfg files an |
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> average user knows little about, and does not care about since he never |
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> tweaked them. In other words, they are in their distibution-default |
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> state, never edited. It stands to reason everyone would want all those |
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> files overwritten by the new ones, is it not ? |
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Not. What is the default settings change. You may not have edited the |
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config because the old defaults were what you wanted, but the new |
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defaults may break your system. Your old config file, with the settings |
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you needed, has now gone to bit heaven and you are left with a broken |
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system. |
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Of course, Gentoo is all about choice, so if you want to take that |
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change, you can set dispatch-conf to do what you want. |
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# Automerge files that the user hasn't modified |
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# (yes or no) |
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replace-unmodified=no |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Spock, I though you were dead!" |
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"I rebooted, Captain." |
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