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On 31/03/2015 02:46, Dale wrote: |
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> Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:42:07 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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>>>> I find the separate files much easier to manage as all the settings |
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>>>> for each package are kept separate, and easily removed or changed - |
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>>>> for example when I stop using the package. The alternative would be to |
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>>>> comment every entry in the file so I know why I put it there and |
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>>>> whether I still needed it. |
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>>> What I ran into, I'd update say KDE. It would need some packages added |
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>>> to the keyword file. Some may not be KDE but packages that KDE depends |
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>>> on. Well, should those that are KDE go into the KDE file and the ones |
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>>> that are dependencies but not KDE go into a file of its own or what? |
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>> You put them wherever you want! I put them in kde, because that's what |
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>> they are for. That way I know that those entries were required by KDE |
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>> without having to fill the single file with comments. |
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> Yea. We just batting ideas around. For me tho, it just turned into a |
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> nightmare. If I needed to change something, which file is it in? At |
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> one time I had a dozen or so files and digging through each one of them |
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> wastes time. If I have just one file, I open the file and do a ctrl f |
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> and type in what I am looking for. Of course, some of the script geeks |
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> prolly have a sneaky way of searching and finding out which file it is |
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> in but I'm not one of those, most days for sure. |
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> Anyway, all the diggin just got old for me. You likely have a easy way |
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> of finding it whereas I don't. ;-) |
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It's called grep |
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Alan McKinnon |
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