On Saturday 13 April 2013 13:06:04 Jeroen Roovers wrote: > On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:08:10 -0400 Mike Frysinger wrote: > > that you remember. i think it's more likely you copy & pasted some > > line a long time ago than baselayout modified it for you. > > Exactly, but where did that come from?
probably worthwhile to track down to better understand, but i don't think the answer will change the result > > two people who have installs that are a decade old doesn't incline me > > to write a news entry. not when the ebuild itself contains a sanity > > check that triggers exactly as needed and includes an error message > > explaining things. we aren't talking about an upgrade here that will > > silently & accidentally break your box on next boot (like udev & > > friends), or will break running programs (like SONAME bumps, although > > that's a much less of a problem now that portage handles things > > automatically). > > I have been looking through old copies of the Handbook in the last > hour, assuming the fstab entry may have been included there at some > point. I haven't done anything like a thorough search, but I assume it > may have slipped into the handbook at some point and was later removed > (as some CVS log entries from 2004 seem to suggest). it's at times like this i wish we had a git repo. `git log -p -C -M` is great at tracking this sort of stuff down. -mike
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