On 05/15/2012 04:15 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > Hello > > I recently installed Gentoo on my uncle's laptop and he was a bit > annoyed about needing to run "dispatch-conf" and merge a lot of changes > on files nobody ever touched. > > Looking to /etc/dispatch-conf.conf I noticed options to improve this > situation exist, but they are disabled by default. I would want to > confirm if they are safe enough or could cause problems. Options are: > > # Automerge files comprising only whitespace and/or comments > # (yes or no) > replace-wscomments=no > > # Automerge files that the user hasn't modified > # (yes or no) > replace-unmodified=no > > Looks really surprising to me that "replace-wscomments" is not enabled > by default as merging that changes shouldn't hurt at all. About > "replace-unmodified", if it works as intended, it should also be safer > to get it enabled by default as would prevent breakage if people forgets > to run dispatch-conf, reboot and, for example, sees some init.d script > fail to start. > > Thanks a lot for the info
FEATURES=config-protect-if-modified is what you really want. We could probably enable it by default, but we should ask for comment on the gentoo-dev mailing list before doing that. -- Thanks, Zac
