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The Grumpy Editor's guide to (some) development distributions

The Grumpy Editor's guide to (some) development distributions

Posted Nov 12, 2007 16:21 UTC (Mon) by evgeny (subscriber, #774)
In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to (some) development distributions by zlynx
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to (some) development distributions

> There are some tricks you can do with CONFIG_PROTECT to force portage to save old versions
of library files.

CONFIG_PROTECT is about protecting _config_ files...


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The Grumpy Editor's guide to (some) development distributions

Posted Nov 12, 2007 17:30 UTC (Mon) by zlynx (subscriber, #2285) [Link]

> CONFIG_PROTECT is about protecting _config_ files...
That does not mean you can not (ab)use it for protecting library files.

Or without the double negative...
CONFIG_PROTECT does work to protect non-config files.

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