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From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:54:01
Message-Id: Pine.BSO.4.58.0606261026010.31699@ida.bway.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update by "Bo Ørsted Andresen"
1 On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
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3 > There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update
4 > (which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ),
5 > dispatch-conf and cfg-update.
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7 Actually all the update tools have pros and cons.
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9 For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
10 than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
11 but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it.
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13 For me, seeing the diffs clearly is more important...
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update "Bo Ørsted Andresen" <bo.andresen@××××.dk>
Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update Alexander Skwar <listen@×××××××××××××××.name>