Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf

["Mark Shields" <laebshade@gmail.com>]

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On 10/13/06, Justin Patrin <papercrane@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> --
> Justin Patrin
> --
> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>
Been using etc-update since day one I started using Gentoo (March 2005? or
was it 2004?), it's done exactly what I needed.

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- Mark Shields

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