Fortran.conf.pacnew

[notageek]

last night found two .pacnew pacman.conf and fortran.conf

I deed merge the pacman.conf but I don’t know how to hold the fortran pacnew since I don’t understand what it means…

should I overwrite it?

[Ben]

Yes, no worries - just be sure to snapshot when you update each time.

Many tweaks we don’t understand, mostly I watch out for my personal edits being wiped out.

[Teo]

Post both here, maybe someone can advise.

[Ben]

Something like this - just go with the flow Even if it’s explained, I wouldn’t understand much.

[notageek]

mine is like this

[Ben]

Yup, just accept it all you don’t have anything invested there, it’s not anything custom to your personal needs - it’s just tweaking the system.

They’re opposite, because I was comparing the current one with a version I copied in from a snapshot.

[Nachlese]

The original had/has nothing in it - everything commented out.
The new one has some sane defaults in it.
In this case - just swap one for the other.
You’ll likely never see any effect whatever you do because it is rather unlikely that you’ll be compiling Fortran code.

[notageek]

@Ben

Yes, no worries - just be sure to snapshot when you update each time.

I’m on ext4, no snapshot… I’m thinking to install timeshift but I never use it, will give a try.

thanks to all for your contribution

[Ben]

@notageek

I’m thinking to install timeshift but I never use it

I haven’t used it for it’s intended purpose for some months now - however, I did just use it to dig up the file that existed before merging the pacnew so it’s definitely a keeper.