From: pk@pk.invalid   
      
   J.O. Aho wrote:   
      
   > No, inittab is protected by default, you will get opted if you want to   
   > update it or not, and you can always protect it more permanently in   
   > make.conf.   
      
   Protecting a file only means it's not automatically overwritten, but as long   
   as portage sees the ._cfg* files it will keep asking (through etc-update or   
   similar tools) whether you want to overwrite it. Not saying that you can't   
   do that, of course, but you still have to be careful, especially if   
   etc-update tells you that 144 files need to be updated, /etc/inittab is   
   among those, and you don't notice that (I'm speaking out of direct   
   experience, btw; I once unthinkingly replaced my customized inittab with   
   the default one. Luckily I had a backup :-)).   
      
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