From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GYRT8-0002an-Vf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:09:15 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9DI5Axu004667; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 18:05:10 GMT Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.179]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9DHxd7Q031337 for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 17:59:40 GMT Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id d42so1015560pyd for ; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:59:39 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=JZ+6XPfuJcZp2DL4rlu/9pDvR1eLRvZ2uhjQ3GQlef3B93SNpbgro20+dHJFTPX1H5Gx+CtQIGI4GnjioWZEN/PNjEyEKjcSnGw7BeTx/OyXgJBJwT2d9rQwPWQHV65gM4qWBHxNKlEhiZejrGFP2Wn0oYygWR+MA2USwXdIAb8= Received: by 10.35.17.14 with SMTP id u14mr6155632pyi; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.35.118.16 with HTTP; Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:59:39 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <432beae0610131059j1dacdceew4106d44b0269621f@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:59:39 -0700 From: "Justin Patrin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf In-Reply-To: <200610131249.36729.bss03@volumehost.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20061013165641.44606.qmail@web31704.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <200610131249.36729.bss03@volumehost.net> X-Archives-Salt: 3b273830-fedc-4322-a0f1-3d92de0ce1c4 X-Archives-Hash: de35c689472d8f7e0ca884230975c253 On 10/13/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler wrote > about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf': > > Interesting discussion here: > > I didn't read it, but after I heard about dispatch-conf, I set it up to use > RCS and turned on all the auto-merge options and never looked back. For > me, it is vastly superior to etc-update. > Entirely agreed. The auto-merge feature is great as it allows you to have configs which you haven't touched auto-updated and it keeps backups of all of your configs if you need them (not that I have as I check the diffs and manual-merge anything I want to keep. :-) dispatch-conf is just a more robust and full-featured system for updating config files. I read the first page of that discussion and it seems most of those who use etc-update haven't tried dispatch-conf. The rest feel they don't need the added features. IMHO dispatch-conf should be the default for gentoo (with RCS turned on) as it would help a lot of newbies when they make their first config update mistake. -- Justin Patrin -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list