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Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2006 14:06:29 -0400
From: "Mark Shields" <laebshade@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf
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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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On 10/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Justin Patrin</b> <<a href="mailto:papercrane@gmail.com">papercrane@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/13/06, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <<a href="mailto:bss03@volumehost.net">bss03@volumehost.net</a>> wrote:<br>> On Friday 13 October 2006 11:56, maxim wexler <<a href="mailto:blissfix@yahoo.com">blissfix@yahoo.com
</a>> wrote<br>> about '[gentoo-user] etc-update vs dispatch-conf':<br>> > Interesting discussion here:<br>><br>> I didn't read it, but after I heard about dispatch-conf, I set it up to use<br>> RCS and turned on all the auto-merge options and never looked back. For
<br>> me, it is vastly superior to etc-update.<br>><br><br>Entirely agreed. The auto-merge feature is great as it allows you to<br>have configs which you haven't touched auto-updated and it keeps<br>backups of all of your configs if you need them (not that I have as I
<br>check the diffs and manual-merge anything I want to keep. :-)<br><br>dispatch-conf is just a more robust and full-featured system for<br>updating config files. I read the first page of that discussion and it<br>seems most of those who use etc-update haven't tried dispatch-conf.
<br>The rest feel they don't need the added features. IMHO dispatch-conf<br>should be the default for gentoo (with RCS turned on) as it would help<br>a lot of newbies when they make their first config update mistake.<br><br>
--<br>Justin Patrin<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-user@gentoo.org">gentoo-user@gentoo.org</a> mailing list<br><br></blockquote></div><br>Been using etc-update since day one I started using Gentoo (March 2005? or was it 2004?), it's done exactly what I needed.
<br clear="all"><br>-- <br>- Mark Shields
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