Bug 81288

Summary:	Use dispatch-conf by default
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Rob <r.tirrell>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	VERIFIED LATER
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	iyosifov, m.debruijne
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Rob 2005-02-08 12:59:27 UTC

etc-update is currently the standard .conf file update utility, included with all new installs. However, many newer users do not understand it's usage and everwrite important files with newer versions (i.e. overwriting /etc/fstab with the useless default version). dispatch-conf doesn't prevent them from doing this, but it does make recovery significantly easier. I see no reason, then, why dispatch-conf shouldn't be used by default.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:




I hope this hasn't been suggested anywhere... I checked.

Comment 1 Robert 2005-04-08 16:42:49 UTC

I second this idea.

Comment 2 Alec Warner (RETIRED) archtester

2005-04-26 22:54:36 UTC

dispatch-conf had some large bugs up until last weekend when a new version was released.  I think a lot of people would second this but waiting a while for the new version to reach maturity before making it the default suggested in portage would be pertinent.

Comment 3 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-07-28 07:25:17 UTC

Putting a hold on feature requests for portage as they are drowning out the 
bugs. Most of these features should be available in the next major version of 
portage. But for the time being, they are just drowning out the major bugs and 
delaying the next version's progress. 
 
Any bugs that contain patches and any bugs for etc-update or dispatch-conf can 
be reopened. Sorry, I'm just not good enough with bugzilla. ;)

Comment 4 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2007-01-11 14:36:30 UTC

Consider this closed as CANTFIX:
There is no 'default' config manager.