Re: Intent to package: mason
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It allready does this unless you commit the changes.
Steve Przepiora
On Sat, 27 Mar 1999, shaleh@clifford.livenet.net wrote:
> >
> > However, I think a program should never directly change essential system files
> > in /etc. Any inexperienced user (like myself sometimes) can completely
> > break his system with mason. It would be better if it would just advise
> > on what to change, but that's my opinion.
> >
>
> Indeed. Perhaps it could write out the files its wants to mke in a sub dir
> somewhere (maybe /tmp, maybe /root). Then if all looks well the scripts could
> be moved into /etc. Or maybe this could be toggled as a flag -n (no act) which
> does the work, but writes to the temporary dir. When all looks well, you run
> it without this flag and it writes to /etc.
>
>
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