Zac Medico posted on Tue, 15 May 2012 15:24:53 -0700 as excerpted: > Hi, > > In case you aren't familiar with it, here's the description from the > make.conf(5) man page: > > This causes the CONFIG_PROTECT behavior to be skipped for files that > have not been modified since they were installed. > > I think it would be a good idea to enable this by default, but I thought > I'd ask here first, in case anyone has objections.
I've been using this for awhile now (tho IIRC it wasn't /that/ long ago that I saw it popup as new in the portage changelog =:^), and have been rather happy with it indeed! =:^) Among other things, I used to get prompted at I think every update for a whole slew of mc theme and hotkey file updates, when I never touched those files. Now I don't have to worry about 'em! =:^) Same thing (different files of course) with openrc, where I use the -9999 live-git version and normally update once or twice a week to better track changes that sometimes negatively affect me. The best thing about it is not having to worry about missing an important change in a file I DO change, due to all the noise from files I don't touch. So yes, definitely ++ to making it the default, from here! =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
