I've just emerged a new baselayout and ended up with 20+ files needed updating in /etc (as reported by etc-update). Many of these I have never touched and are still in their default state, so can more than likely safely be replaced without question. Would it be a reasonable request for emerge to take a checksum of any files it puts in /etc, and then when etc-update runs, it can tell if a file has never been updated. Then it would be able to ether replace regardless, or flag the fact to the user, making the update process a little easier Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
you can use dispatch-conf instead of etc-update and edit /etc/dispatch-conf.conf. Don't forget to mkdir /etc/config-archive.
This is not reasonable for everyone. I wouldn't want the default behavior changing on some packages. So I want to see them all. etc-update is very easy to work with... You can scroll up and down the list and pick the ones you want to modify... and -5 the rest. Someone needs to post a patch, if you really want this feature for etc-update, as we don't really have time for it. Try dispatch-conf.
