From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Nj2GU-0001v4-7b for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:13:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B1AE4E0B69; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au (mail2.pcorp.com.au [150.101.72.19]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3603BE0B69 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 03:13:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DF861074063 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:43:03 +0930 (CST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at mail2.pcorp.com.au Received: from mail2.pcorp.com.au ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail2.pcorp.com.au [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ul016O1v3CzY; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:43:02 +0930 (CST) Received: from [172.16.0.62] (dsl-203-113-238-142.SA.netspace.net.au [203.113.238.142]) by mail2.pcorp.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF83E1074062 for ; Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:43:01 +0930 (CST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? From: Iain Buchanan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <201002201208.09675.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> References: <20100212195529.GD1560@muc.de> <201002141203.40600.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <20100214113212.63fcd6a8@digimed.co.uk> <201002201208.09675.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Date: Sun, 21 Feb 2010 12:42:57 +0930 Message-ID: <1266721977.3445.146.camel@localhost> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.28.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ca6cb0b9-1201-4b03-a3f7-e1e18982327a X-Archives-Hash: 492b92ed63731d4c0027bb1766cf8815 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... -- Iain Buchanan In any formula, constants (especially those obtained from handbooks) are to be treated as variables.