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

[Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>]

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.

I'm still using etc-update, which seems adequate except when squid is 
upgraded, but I thought I'd try cfg-update. Problem though: it demands 
dev-util/xxdiff which doesn't exist. What's a suitable substitute?

-- 
Rgds
Peter.