Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > * If no existing file with the intended target name exists, or if > the existing file has identical content to the file to be > installed, the file to be installed is installed as normal.
I would much prefer new files to be treated as if replacing an existing zero length file. When something is installed into /etc, etc-update should alert me to this, because logically speaking a new configuration file is a big configuration change. Ideally the package manager would unconditionally respect the config protection area, and it should be up to tools like etc-update to (configurably) automerge new files and identical files, just like it can be configured to automerge trivial/comment changes. Benno -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
