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From: Phil Richards <news@××××××××××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout redefines /etc/fstab
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 14:26:51
Message-Id: 20040206142646.5C6588C016@derisoft.derived-software.demon.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] baselayout redefines /etc/fstab by Phil Richards
1 On 2004-02-06, I wrote:
2 > Of course, what you *really* want is to do a 3-way merge involving
3 > the "new install" config file, the "previous install" config file, and
4 > the actual config file that the user has determined they want.
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6 And, I should have added, that cfg-update quite possibly does it already.
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8 However, I remain of the opinion (even though I am a ~x86 user) that I
9 will not use cfg-update until it is more "official" - etc-update has its
10 limitations, but if it goes wrong the main gentoo developers will notice
11 pretty darn quick and fix it :-)
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13 So, any chance of cfg-update ever making it into app-portage?
14 (Yeah, I've read the bugs entry for it...)
15
16 phil
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