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From: "A. Khattri" <ajai@××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 16:24:33
Message-Id: Pine.BSO.4.58.0606291206520.23501@ida.bway.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] etc-update by Alexander Skwar
1 On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Alexander Skwar wrote:
2
3 > A. Khattri wrote:
4 >
5 > > For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read
6 > > than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice
7 > > but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it.
8 > >
9 > > For me, seeing the diffs clearly is more important...
10 >
11 > ACK
12 >
13 > But dispatch-conf uses diff as well, so that's no advantage of etc-update
14 > over dispatch-conf.
15
16 Sorry the emphasis should have been on the word CLEARLY.
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18 diff output is hard to read so I use vim (which is easy to configure and
19 use i etc-update).
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21 (Bo pointed out that he's used vim to show diffs with dispathc-conf too).
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