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 1MBsxy-0005fl-Es for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 03 Jun 2009 16:05:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9BA63E03FD; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71908E03FD for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C94FDEE8B for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:05:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org ([192.168.54.25]) by localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id R8Pb7wHgFg73 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:00:46 +0100 (BST) Received: from wstn.ethnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2535EDEEA8 for ; Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:05:27 +0100 (BST) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] dispatch-conf merge Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:58:20 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <87zlcpc2pl.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> <20090603085222.53c88004@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20090603085222.53c88004@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200906031658.20891.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 0d7a4c37-d99f-42d1-8a12-2d61568a466a X-Archives-Hash: eafaa19cf09971c92bfa7a90330c8d75 On Wednesday 03 June 2009 08:52:22 Neil Bothwick wrote: > I switched from dispatch-conf to conf-update a while ago and much prefer > it. The merging is more flexible and rarely has problems as you describe. Well I'm still using etc-update. The only difficult case is when squid is updated on my proxy box, and that's because of the sheer size of its config file. I handle this one myself. -- Rgds Peter