On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 12:44 PM, Stroller <strol...@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> wrote: > >> On Fri, 4 December 2015, at 12:55 p.m., Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> Surely it should go in somewhere like /usr/local/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ >>> instead. >>> >>> Making the original /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/ directory read-only >>> prevents updates and bug fixes being applied. >>> >> >> Nobody suggested making the directory read-only. They suggested >> adding it to CONFIG_PROTECT in make.conf, which treats the directory >> the same as /etc with the need to merge changes. > > Ok, so you're saying that putting the CONFIG_PROTECT in make.conf, makes the > directory read-only only for portage, right? > > If you want to be precise, it tells portage not to write there, I think. > > Whichever way you want to spell it, doesn't this prevent updates and bug > fixes from being applied?
Nope. It just enabled configuration protection, as is the default for /etc. So changes go into new files, and then you can merge them with dispatch-conf or cfg-update or whatever your favorite tool for merging config file changes is. If somebody has a link to the docs for this please post it, as it seems like this has disappeared from the handbook. This used to be Gentoo 101... -- Rich
