From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 9938 invoked by uid 1002); 11 Jan 2003 21:33:06 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 18178 invoked from network); 11 Jan 2003 21:33:06 -0000 From: Dylan Carlson Reply-To: absinthe@pobox.com To: kai.grossjohann@uni-duisburg.de (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:29:44 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <33052.192.168.0.8.1041817268.squirrel@webmail.codewordt.co.uk> <200301111019.34624.absinthe@pobox.com> <84hecfmmpb.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> In-Reply-To: <84hecfmmpb.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200301111629.44793.absinthe@pobox.com> Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: Diff alternatives for etc-update X-Archives-Salt: 2c4f2cc1-2d37-4b9c-9662-c0f0dc737ad4 X-Archives-Hash: ce93d5c0a7792ccbdb4c33d0299644fd On Saturday 11 January 2003 03:54pm, Kai Großjohann wrote: > > I posted this in -user, but will do so again here... I believe one of > > the easier things we can do is add support for other diff utils in > > /etc/make.conf/. kompare, kdiff3, gtkdiff, whatever... > > But it's more important to diff the right files (or versions). > IMVHO, it's 90% which version and 10% how the diff looks. Sure, it's important to save the user a step by diffing the most recent version of the config file... ...however I believe it's more important that users (some of whom are not regularly diffing files) can clearly see & understand what's changing. If they merge incorrectly, they can screw up their system. I say -- allow them access to tools which might make that process easier. Making it configurable allows the user to decide the tool they want to use to merge, instead of us trying to make everyone happy with our sdiff wrapper... sdiff's fine as a default, obviously... it works as-is, but I think everyone would enjoy etc-update a lot more if they had a choice of tools. I suspect one day we'll have a better homegrown Gentoo tool, but I don't see that happening in the next 6 months... Cheers, Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com] -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list