On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 09:22:29PM +0200, Rafael Fern??ndez L??pez wrote > This is not flame war. I love Gentoo, and it is the distribution > that fits me perfectly, but I've been wondering this last year what > things can be improved in this wonderful distro. > > The first thing that I'd change is "etc-update" or "dispatch-conf".
etc-update needs only one change to make it perfect for me, namely the ability to protect changes to default parameters. Here are 3 examples from a recent update, where an automaton has no business touching certain lines... /etc/conf.d/bootmisc -WIPE_TMP="yes" +WIPE_TMP="no" /etc/conf.d/local.start # This is a good place to load any misc programs -# on startup ( use 1>&2 to hide output) -modprobe snd-virmidi index=1 +# on startup (use &>/dev/null to hide output) + /etc/conf.d/rc @@ -74,7 +89,12 @@ # and restore it on startup. This is useful if you have a lot of # custom device nodes that udev does not handle/know about. -RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="yes" +RC_DEVICE_TARBALL="no" + When I say "yes" I mean "yes". When I say "no" I mean "no". And I don't mean "just until the next update" either. I have reasons for my settings; please don't act like Windows and assume that you know better than me. And there is no excuse whatsoever for wiping out the custom settings in /etc/conf.d/local.start Would it be possible to have some comment declaration like... #etc-update-protect-begin WIPE_TMP="yes" #etc-update-protect-end ...to protect a block of lines against changes, while allowing other lines to be changed? -- Walter Dnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In linux /sbin/init is Job #1 My musings on technology and security at http://tech_sec.blog.ca -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
