147771 – baselayout upgrade wants to mess with /etc/rc.conf

Bug 147771 - baselayout upgrade wants to mess with /etc/rc.conf

Summary: baselayout upgrade wants to mess with /etc/rc.conf

Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	[OLD] baselayout (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High trivial (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages

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Reported:	2006-09-15 23:39 UTC by Dominik Kozaczko
Modified:	2006-09-18 03:12 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Dominik Kozaczko 2006-09-15 23:39:39 UTC

I'd suggest that /etc/rc.conf should not be messed with that much. After upgrading baselayout, etc-update wanted to revert my EDITOR, DISPLAYMANAGER and XSESSION settings. I don't want this to happen.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2006-09-16 01:21:40 UTC

for now, no

Comment 2 Dominik Kozaczko 2006-09-18 03:12:55 UTC

Could you please explain why? I "LOVE" such nice and intelligent "just because" reasoning.

I know I should look carefully when doing etc-update, but such things are set once for all and should not need any update or user interaction. What's the use of reverting hostname to "localhost" and editor to "nano" after every baselayout upgrade? It's annoying and nothing more - another config to be handled manually.