On Tuesday 08 Dec 2015 03:29:45 Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 8:02 PM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > > That's like telling your grandma, "you don't know what DNS is? this is > > internet 101 - you use DNS all the time". > > > > I have not needed to add directories to CONFIG_PROTECT, or alter it in > > any way, in over 10 years of using Gentoo. > > Fair enough, neither have I. I just meant that configruation > protection itself is a fairly standard and well-used capability. I > get that somebody might not recognize the name for it or the meaning > of the environment variable.
Actually, I recall that pre-2003/04 we used to edit the list of protected directories. I think that the reason at the time was that etc-update would take too long to scan all of them, so the user was encourage to limit these according to preference. There may be some old threads lurking around the M/L archives on this topic. -- Regards, Mick
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