On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:32:54 +0100 Paul de Vrieze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Maybe my wording was a bit too harsh. But I cannot see the point of > offering the user the option of replacing his passwd/fstab/group with > one that with 99% certainty is wrong It is for sure "wrong" in sense that you can't blindly replace your own file with the default one. But this doesn't mean that it doesn't worth a merge: when a change is made to the standard fstab, it often for some good reasons, like adding /dev/shm some time ago (if i remember correctly), and this is something that user must know and it is the only way to tell him (remember that people don't see einfos from ebuilds). The problem with a .example file is that you read it once at install time, and then have no reason to open it again. Because it is never modified by user, it will be automatically replaced when a new version is available, and user won't notice that he have something to add to his fstab. So imo, all of this is not about "offering the user the option to replace his custom files", but about informing him of important changes he should apply. Now, the corollary is that this file should only be updated for changes important enough to worth a merge. (Or non critical additions should be comments only, like the floppy mount point recently, so that people who choose to ignore comments updates won't be bothered with that.) -- TGL. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
