Actually, they do occasionally overwrite. And thats independent on the etc-update user interface design problems (making it too easy to overwrite important files.)
About the time that modules.autoconf was spreading disaster (I had 3 machines lose the contents of that file until I realised what was happening and kept a backup.) an overwrite of /etc/fstab was occuring as well. I have also had sporadic overwrites of other important files, but never tracked down why. Its one of the hazards of gentoo, and you would be well advised to keep backups of important config files, both for this reason and for the more common admin disasters - I have heard of some going as far as cvs'ing the contents. BillK On Sun, 2003-09-28 at 08:19, Ernie Schroder wrote: > On Saturday 27 September 2003 07:39 pm, Mark Knecht wrote: > > Those names,ROOT. BOOT and SWAP won't reapear all by themselves. When > you do some updates and portage tells you that there are 12 > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
