On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 01:33:01PM +0000, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2004, at 8:13 am, Drake Wyrm wrote: > > >>The Installation documentation could be changed to say "copy & edit > >>your fstab like so: cp /etc/fstab.example /etc/fstab && nano -w > >>/etc/fstab`" and users would have the benefit of a back-up of the > >>original should they ever b0rk theirs up. > > > >I have to disagree completely. This is exactly why we use > >CONFIG_PROTECT > >and etc-update. Packages *should* install a default, but it shouldn't > >be called <config-file>.example. Documentation, such as a config file > >example, belongs in /usr/share/doc/<package>. > > Hmmmn... I guess this is a matter of personal taste. I find a .example > file right next to the one I'm editing SO useful.
Heh. Yeah, I s'pose that is up to personal taste. I was probably having a human-nature check. "I don't like it, ergo it's wrong." Or something like that. Plus, the FHS says that examples don't belong there either, so I have "...and somebody agrees with me!" to fluff my ego. > When updates to /etc/fstabare required, I feel there's a good case for > "yelling at the user" using ewarn. I've yet to find those helpful. They scroll by too quickly, especially when I have a dozen or so other terms open with other projects. And, of course, I couldn't be bothered to read the logs. I wouldn't be opposed to a more intelligent automerge; as long as I still have eu_automerge="no" in my etc-update.conf, I'm happy. Might be an interesting project to add some functions to smoothly merge files like fstab. -- Batou: Hey, Major... You ever hear of "human rights"? Kusanagi: I understand the concept, but I've never seen it in action. --Ghost in the Shell
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