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 1Nl52Q-00064B-1i for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:35:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 44305E073E; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:35:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.ukfsn.org (mail.ukfsn.org [77.75.108.10]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BB0DE073E for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:35:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (smtp-filter.ukfsn.org [192.168.54.205]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9589E1053 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:23:59 +0000 (GMT) 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 caKM58A0b8Ef for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:23:59 +0000 (GMT) Received: from wstn.localnet (unknown [78.32.181.186]) by mail.ukfsn.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5187DE0892 for ; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:20:20 +0000 (GMT) From: Peter Humphrey Organization: at home To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:20:19 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.0 (Linux/2.6.32-gentoo-r6; KDE/4.4.0; x86_64; ; ) References: <20100212195529.GD1560@muc.de> <201002141203.40600.volkerarmin@googlemail.com> <20100214113212.63fcd6a8@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100214113212.63fcd6a8@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: <201002261820.19536.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> X-Archives-Salt: 6a296877-0de5-4909-9f88-eaf51d45f9ea X-Archives-Hash: 7b5bee0351b87924cfaf04dc4d44ff18 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.