Re: [gentoo-dev] A tool helps to diff and override config files

[Daniel Pielmeier]

2008/12/4 Song Ma <songmash@×××××.com>:
> Hi,
>
> With Gentoo if the user runs "emerge --update --newuse --deep world", the
> config file under "/etc" may be updated and get the new config file named as
> "._cfg0000_xxxx", for example,  "._cfg0000_ntp.conf". Normally I will
> compare this newly updated config file with my existing one, then decide if
> I am going to override the existing one with new one or discard the new one
> since I must keep my existing setting. It is not very efficient to do these
> actions with command lines such as "diff", "cp" or "mv" one by one. I wrote
> a tool with text menu to help Gentoo user compare and copy new the new
> config file conveniently. Does anyone have interest about it? What should I
> do if I want to make it open source and maintain it for Gentoo users?
>
> A screen shot for the tool use:
>
>

Why reinventing the wheel?

What about using existing tools with much more functionality like
etc-update, dispatch-conf, cfg-update or etc-proposals?

-- 
Regards,
Daniel