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On Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 05:32:56PM +0100, Toby Dickenson wrote: |
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> On Tuesday 01 July 2003 16:49, Josep Sanjuas wrote: |
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> > I think there could be more advantages. |
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> they dont seem very compelling..... |
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There is one compelling advantage that I believe was intended by the |
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original poster. That is this: in the current situation, when I upgrade |
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baselayout I get a new make.conf which I have to merge by hand. In my |
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experience this is definitely the hardest file in /etc to merge because of |
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its size and the amount of customization I've done to it. If it were split |
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into separate files, it would be easier to see where the new stuff is. |
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Also, I would be familiar with the particular sections that I'd made |
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changes to, so I could simply copy the maintainers version of any files |
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that I know I haven't changed. |
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I may be a special case, though; I can't use etc-update because it has IMHO |
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a horrendous interface. |
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I'm skeptical about a configuration tool to fix make.conf automatically, |
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because I've seen so many such things go wrong. On the other hand, ufed is |
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indispensible, and if such a utility were as easy-to-use and |
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easy-to-know-what-it's-doing as ufed I would definitely consider using it. |
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Owen |
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searching his pockets for 2 pennies.. |
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