Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?

[Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>]

On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 12:08 +0000, Mick wrote:
> On Sunday 14 February 2010 11:32:12 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0100, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > > > On a more serious note, conf-update automatically merges trivial
> > > > changes, so any configs you ran at the default, which is probably the
> > > > majority, won't be flaged at all.
> > >
> > > so does cfg-update....
> > 
> > Every now and then, someone mentions cfg-update - usually you :) - and I
> > give it another try, but I don't really get on with it and always go back
> > to conf-update. There's nothing specific wrong with it, I just prefer (or
> > am used to) conf-update.
> > 
> > I expect that if I were still using etc-update or dispatch-conf I would
> > welcome it with open arms though.
> 
> You make me feel out of touch with Gentoo!  Is dispatch-conf and etc-update 
> that bad then?

out of touch would be rolling your own config update tool, like me ;)
It hasn't changed much since I started using Gentoo...

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