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From: Stuart Herbert <stuart@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] auto updating untouched config files
Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 17:59:27
Message-Id: 200405021913.05019.stuart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] auto updating untouched config files by Marius Mauch
1 On Sunday 02 May 2004 16:21, Marius Mauch wrote:
2 > Well, the idea is to modify etc-update to handle the diffs ;) I don't
3 > really want to re-educate our whole userbase away from etc-update and to
4 > change all docs.
5
6 So etc-update will auto-merge the diffs?
7
8 Why not just overwrite the unmodified config files, and have done with it?
9
10 Best regards,
11 Stu
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Re: [gentoo-dev] auto updating untouched config files John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu>