On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:29, Anton Berezin wrote: > > Note that there are still risks in blindly applying CVS changes. There > > have been a couple of cases where defaults have changed meaning that > > corresponding changes to local system configuration is required to > > retain previous behaviour. > > Yeah, the possibility to shoot yourself if the foot is always there. On > the other hand, I would expect that 1) changes in defaults should be in > UPDATING, and 2) most people qi<enter> such files (say, for > /etc/defaults/rc.conf) without looking too closely into the actual > diffs. Those default changes are always (or should always be :) UPDATING fodder.. *cough*etcmerge*cough* :) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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