Please see my reply to Neil re this thread > Once you marked some directories from protection, > emerge will, instead of > using the file from a package, install the file from > a package > as ._cfg-<filename> (or somesuch). Tools like > dispatch-conf and > etc-update are then used to merge your file with the > one(s) > named ._cfg-<filename>.
I replied(to Neil) before remembering why I put CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" in my make.conf(if that's the problem here). Now it comes back to me. Whenever I used to emerge something there'd inevitably be a long followup where I had to answer y/n to a list of files that were due to be overwritten IIRC. From a forum I was advised to write the above CONFIG_PROTECT line. That's when was I new to gentoo and I haven't changed it since. But where is CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK, since grepping make.conf only returns the one line, CONFIG_PROTECT? -Maxim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
