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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 10:59:39 -0700
From: "Justin Patrin" <papercrane@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf
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On 10/13/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <bss03@volumehost.net> wrote:
> On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler <blissfix@yahoo.com> 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.
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Justin Patrin
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