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Joachim Blaabjerg wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 18:48, Yannick Koehler wrote:
> <snip>
> 
> I might be stumbling in the dark here, but what if Portage stored all
> the files that were installed in a protected directory in
> somewhere/app-category/app/app-version/dir/file (or whatever), and did a
> diff on those verbatim files that were installed, so the user can see
> what has changed between the two original versions (the ones he hasn't
> changed yet)? My biggest problem right now is that of diff'ing a file,
> and spotting what changes I did, and what changes the package came
> with...
> 
> Anyway, I'm really tired here. Please ignore this if it's really stupid,
> or someone else mentioned it in the beginning of the thread ;)
>  
> 

I find that a little too expensive.  Maybe a good idea for config files 
thought.

Yannick Koehler