On Wed, 2012-05-09 at 21:57 +0800, Patrick Lauer wrote: > Why this arbitrary limit to only one application? > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-amd64.xml?part=3&chap=4 > > Something along those lines makes life a lot easier and avoids these > schizophrenic hacks around package managers that don't respect files - > but it needs support in the package manager to work reliably.
Years ago I nearly had a heart attack when I saw the following output from etc-update: "Merging trivial changes to fstab" Doesn't Arch have a setup where foo.conf includes foo.conf.local (or conf.d/foo, or something; I get frustrated with Arch about 2 minutes after booting, usually) for anything the user edits? Personally I'd rather have a set of files that I know the distribution may blow away at any moment and a separate set of files that I know the distribution will never alter. I get that a change to the semantics of a configuration file may require user-altered stuff to change, but even dispatch-conf doesn't help with that. Weldon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1336574157.3040.20.ca...@skipjack.trit.us
