> On Mon, 7 December 2015, at 9:24 p.m., Rich Freeman <ri...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > It wasn't really targeted at anybody in particular. It just should be > clear in the documentation since config protection and merging config > changes is a big part of administering a Gentoo system. It probably > should be in the handbook, and it looks like it was at some time in > the past. > > Config protection isn't some exotic feature that few use (like > crossdev, prefix, hardened, or glentoo). It is pretty central to the > whole design of portage, and I believe all the other package managers > implement it as well in some form.
It seems just a tad exotic to me, as I haven't used or needed it in over 10 years. Am I not correct in thinking that a /usr/local/whatever directory would work as I described previously? [1] >> I've been using Gentoo for over a decade - since before you were a >> developer, at least. > > Glad to hear I'm not the only one who ran it in the Pentium3 over a > modem days who is still around. :) I still have a Pentium 3 running here. Embarrassingly, it hasn't been updated since the hard drive was in a Pentium 2. $ cat /etc/*rele* Gentoo Base System version 1.4.16 $ Stroller. [1] http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/287491
