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 1NgcGo-0005Hu-9X for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:04:10 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE6B6E072D; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:03:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-fx0-f223.google.com (mail-fx0-f223.google.com [209.85.220.223]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7CB49E072D for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:03:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm23 with SMTP id 23so4163887fxm.2 for ; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:03:45 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=GKWAwyFsldcEN4KtXBRJU0hixyTt2S8qHRFfY3III3k=; b=sQ+ptuJkBX8OcSCnn34cT/z8cWKqpBZXGW9TukFjSxEtDPthzhaZ+mTl6EvuVVEssf 2SI8lKMbY16s1PXvqguOw9AT4GehxeKQKpA30mmcmLZOzEDH5s+DKC3KCIkpAFtEYnf3 7hPispxfje0GIJfKPQeOb3NVcHpyldgOaHnlY= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=oc6/JNHLt2WPDZFpqQkj5iTU458wAwgYDEfgRD6Jr3uIK0mXiUUuU+NK+rgfKlOQh2 MuGGtNIkBjDoLgm5walYfrOBGxhu4Rj5JzV4aZouFLGbBK/2+3GUdaaC2iJg9WGEYeCN 0XVhjgswF7k5jZD4lvPIAAb8KlO5PgxgumbrA= Received: by 10.223.4.135 with SMTP id 7mr4351469far.42.1266145424872; Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:03:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from energy.localnet (ip-80-226-1-7.vodafone-net.de [80.226.1.7]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm2535184fxm.4.2010.02.14.03.03.43 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 14 Feb 2010 03:03:44 -0800 (PST) From: Volker Armin Hemmann To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 12:03:40 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.31.12r4; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100212195529.GD1560@muc.de> <201002140801.51064.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20100214093409.7b27745c@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100214093409.7b27745c@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="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201002141203.40600.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> X-Archives-Salt: de204cb0-8593-49a7-885e-ab6012d0c2b7 X-Archives-Hash: 96e295ae6d9a94aaf52565a26830bafb On Sonntag 14 Februar 2010, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 08:01:50 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > > The OP then doesn't have to deal with 600+ conf-update complaints > > > > > > Run conf-update and press a then d :) > > > > But I'm a paranoid snarky old git and that doesn't work for me! > > But d rejects all the changes, leaving your own configs. To be paranoid > that you are trying to hack your own computer mean you must have MPD too, > and I'm not referring to the Music Player Daemon :) > > > If I get 600 entries in conf-update I feel compelled to examine each > > one and decide individually. Just in case.... > > You may grow out of that, if you have time after reading all those > configs :) > > 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....