On Fri, 12 Apr 2013 16:08:10 -0400 Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> 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? > 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). -mike 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). jer