On Mon, 11 Jan 2010, Aaron Griffin wrote:
If you modify it, you should add it to the NoUpgrade line in
/etc/pacman.conf. The backup array is for what we INTEND to be
modified. Users are more than welcome to do what we don't intend, but
you need to control whether of not pacman mucks with those files
yourself
Since I've been bitten by this, how can I know if the file I modified is
goint to be overwritten or not, *before* it actually happens? And even if
it is, a .pacsave wouldn't hurt anyone, if I remember correctly (it's been
some time) I had completely lost my changes, and I had to rewrite them.
Thanks,
Dimitris
