On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:31:23 -0800 Balaji Srinivasan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> One way these conflicts could be reduced is by separating out sections > in config files that will most probably be modified by the user and > those which are not. For example the USE directive and the CFLAGS > directive from make.conf could be moved to a separate file. That way > whenever portage changes, they wouldnt need to update those flags (or > even if they did it would be easy to merge). This is in ofcourse be in > addition to having a way for the user to indicate which files he is > interested in and hence those files should not be auto updated. Also > maintaining a history of updates in a separate directory would also > help. This way in case things do go wrong we still have access to the > old files. > Could we not just check the last modified date vs. the create date and if they match, assume the file has not been altered? Or am I not as clear as I thought I was on what those two represent? -- Ian Truelsen Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org PGP key available at: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org/pgp.html and http://pgp.mit.edu (search 'ihtruelsen') -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
