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Gerhard Hoogterp wrote: |
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> On Thursday 29 June 2006 18:09, A. Khattri wrote: |
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>> On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, David Corbin wrote: |
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>> > > I don't see why use other tool. Etc-update works great... |
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>> > It works great, But the interface sucks. |
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>> What exactly sucks? Be specific rather than making some vague sweeping |
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>> statement. |
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> The interface oh well.. |
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What about it? What sucks about the interface? How should it be improved? |
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> but what I dislike about etc-update (and it's |
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> replacements afaik) is this tendency to want to restore files to their |
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> original state.. |
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Well - how *could* this be changed? I mean, those tools show the differences |
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between the "orignal state" (ie. the config file as shipped be Gentoo and |
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thus as the "OEM" normally ships it) and what you've got on your hard disk. |
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> One keypress to many, one moment of not paying enough |
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> attention an whee.. |
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Well - be careful. As always with computers. |
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> gone is fstab, XF86Org or some other important file.. I |
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> really don't understand why the system doesn't have blabla.conf.dist files to |
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> fool around with and leave it up to the administator to check of changes and |
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> the like.. |
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Because most of the times, the user expects a more or less working |
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system after having installed the program. That's why programs tend |
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to ship a basic configuration. And that's good so. |
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> Yes I've been burned a few times.. and no I didn't like it.. |
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I also don't like being burned. But I don't blame anyone else, |
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if I burn myself. It's just plain my fault and nobody elses. |
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Alexander Skwar |
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Kissing a fish is like smoking a bicycle. |
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