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 <gentoo-user+bounces-46040-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@gentoo.org>) id 1Fzk2s-0001x9-Vq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:54:43 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6A0qpj3007294; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:52:51 GMT Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6A0lfxu027955 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Mon, 10 Jul 2006 00:47:41 GMT Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j40so1274438ugd for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:47:41 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=QfQaJhJxVHs+ZkFvlLOV9LCW0D1Wa4vIdlB/B6ZwwCFjyaM3ZhD/O0W3FbjM4/0IHYzqT3wnwA2B6oyVtItwBAE5Mywik5XV2bBOc9s7mdag+iGSVhayrzt7v0Io+uZAF19W326Vw0+jSA+eXyanCO6a0AHJgA5JGaKAh0M5jGA= Received: by 10.67.101.10 with SMTP id d10mr4481386ugm; Sun, 09 Jul 2006 17:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.66.245.5 with HTTP; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:47:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <504b2780607091747n99328a4y40a5c3bcc2f0addf@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 20:47:41 -0400 From: "David Dalrymple" <davidad@mit.edu> Sender: psixi.beta@gmail.com To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Things that can be improved In-Reply-To: <44B128C8.4000100@cs.umn.edu> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> 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: <44AEB475.8000702@maestroprogramador.com> <20060708203707.GB6713@waltdnes.org> <200607082259.24713@frappe.xs4all.nl> <44B120C2.5050704@mid.email-server.info> <504b2780607090853j310186f6ue6e571fa82e1b69@mail.gmail.com> <44B128C8.4000100@cs.umn.edu> X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5e6112841cdf94f6 X-Archives-Salt: 2ea13ff2-765b-4cbf-a920-ad967a001bd1 X-Archives-Hash: e3ab10536a812dcd45cf3c0e29cbca22 > You can see here that you *CAN* use vimdiff, I personally use colordiff > which you can see above. HTH Ah, very nice. So then the alleged "problems" in etc-update lie not with the frontend to diff itself, but with the idea of using a frontend to diff (as opposed to a more complex system)? --David -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list