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On Wednesday 27 September 2006 17:59, Joe Menola <menola@×××××××××.net> |
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wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Should we NEVER do an ``emerge -u |
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world''?': |
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> On Wednesday 27 September 2006 5:10 pm, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> > That's not the same as -5ing everything, which is what I was referring |
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> > to and the easy way to toast /etc/fstab. |
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> Can you give an example of *any* situation that would make updating |
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> fstab sensible? |
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No, which is why shipping /etc/fstab as part of baselayout should go away. |
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Surely there's a solution that provides examples for new user/installs, |
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but doesn't bug me to update a file that upstream cannot possibly know |
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good contents for. |
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> Important etc files should be placed in .example form and the user |
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> warned that editting is required. |
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Yeah, but imagine if every configuration file has a .example? I don't want |
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a bunch of unused files cluttering my filesystem. (I guess I could |
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INSTALL_MASK them if there was a naming policy.) |
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> Etc-update has always been the thorn in Gentoo. |
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Which is why I use dispatch-conf. ;) |
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-- |
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"If there's one thing we've established over the years, |
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it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest |
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clue what's best for them in terms of package stability." |
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-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh |
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