I'd like to commit this news item on 2012-05-21. See previous discussion here:
http://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/msg_7fe557809defad4faca2ee5c6e52d134.xml -- Thanks, Zac
Title: Portage's config-protect-if-modified feature is enabled by default Author: Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Posted: 2012-05-21 Revision: 1 News-Item-Format: 1.0 Display-If-Installed: >=sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.61 Beginning with sys-apps/portage-2.1.10.61, FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified is enabled by default. This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT behavior to be skipped for files that have not been modified since they were installed. If you would like to disable this behavior by default, then set FEATURES="-config-protect-if-modified" in make.conf. See the make.conf(5) man page for more information about this feature.
