Gerhard Hoogterp schrieb:
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
As I wrote in an other mail: Stop interfering with the actual configfile and
add the changes to a config.conf.dist file.
Yep, you wrote that, and I answered that *I* would *NOT* like this.
I like it, that I can use a program right away - at least in a
"default" way. If you had your way, *NO* program which relied
on configuration files would be usable after installation, as
no configuration file could be found. Because of that, I would
not want to happen what you proposed.
There you don't have to ask for
permission and a simple diff can reveal the changes whenever I want.
A simple diff is all that's done right now (well, basically at least;
basically etc-update can be seen as a sort of front-end to diff).
During install a copy of this file could be installed already for direct use..
Something alike for the messages during an emerge. Often I see instructions on
what to do after the emerge flashing by while doing an emerge world, I don't
even want to know how many I miss.. Why not log those to a seperate file so
one can actually find them back afterwards?
"Why not"? Simple - because it's already done that way. You can
save all the messages which meet a certain level (ie. either log
all ewarn messages, all einfo messages or both kinds of messages).
I know Gentoo is supposed to be for those who know how to deal with things,
but that doesn't mean it should be more complicated of dangerous than
needed..
ACK.
Alexander Skwar
--
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from
acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
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