On 2012-05-16 12:56 PM, Fabio Erculiani wrote: > Generally, several PMS (I think apt does it as well) make this assumption: > if config file C owned by package P has never been modified, meaning > that md5 or whatever is the same, the old C of P was fine, so is the > new C.
Yep, and I always thought that Gentoo way of dealing with config files was much better -both compared to .deb and .rpm land- in this regard. Presenting the diff is a quick and efficient way to highlight the changes and ask the sysadmin to make the necessary changes if any. I am not bothered with the (frequency of?) diffs but I guess people are. > This also helps a lot in the scenario where critical configuration > files are not updated before reboot, which might result in an > unbootable system (ouch!). Well, that is true. If you forget to dispatch-conf, it might bite you. Anyway, no big deal either way though I prefer the status quo. If we make the change, make it with enough fanfare that users notice. -- Eray Aslan <e...@gentoo.org>
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