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From: Tom Martin <slarti@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64]  Re: dispatch-conf confusion
Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 17:50:22 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050926165022.GA27953@pohl.domain_not_set.invalid> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4337D6FE.4040902@adelphia.net>

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In addition to what Duncan said, I'd recommend app-portage/cfg-update.
It is non-interactive, and simply overwrites files that haven not been
modified by the user, and leaves files that have well alone. This isn't
always what's desired, but it can be a useful tool in some
circumstances.

Tom

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      reply	other threads:[~2005-09-26 16:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-26  0:45 [gentoo-amd64] dispatch-conf confusion Mark Creamer
2005-09-26  8:59 ` [gentoo-amd64] " Duncan
2005-09-26 11:09   ` Mark Creamer
2005-09-26 16:50     ` Tom Martin [this message]

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