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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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Am I not correct in thinking that a /usr/local/whatever directory would work as I described previously? [1] |
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>> I've been using Gentoo for over a decade - since before you were a developer, at least. |
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> Glad to hear I'm not the only one who ran it in the Pentium3 over a |
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> modem days who is still around. :) |
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I still have a Pentium 3 running here. Embarrassingly, it hasn't been updated since the hard drive was in a Pentium 2. |
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$ cat /etc/*rele* |
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Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 |
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$ |
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Stroller. |
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[1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/287491 |
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