[Openal-devel] Some patches used in Debian openal-soft package

[Chris Robinson]

On Sunday 17 May 2009 1:19:18 pm Andres Mejia wrote:
> I think most distros have this similar behavior. I know in Debian,
> configurations are only removed if you explicitly set to purge the package,
> as opposed to just removing. Also, on package upgrades, the configuration
> file is not overwritten if it detects that the user edited the configuration
> file.

On upgrades, Gentoo tries to merge "trivial" changes, but would otherwise ask 
you if you want to keep the old config, use the new one, or manually merge the 
two by hand.

> With the patch, a user has to set that they want the configuration file
> installed. So even for users that build directly from source, they won't be
> overwriting their configuration files unless they explicitly set to install
> them.

The config file has been cleaned up/reformatted, and can be installed using 
that option, now. The options are listed with their default values, but are 
commented out.