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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: etc-update & ._cfg* files: major issue with
From:       William Kenworthy <billk () iinet ! net ! au>
Date:       2003-01-10 23:05:36
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diffs from what?  what happens if the user has made changes outside of
the way gentoo has configured the system?  I found this was a major
disavantage of Mandrake, as it had to assume that the user didnt fiddle
with the files - if you configured it manually for whatever reason, the
whole mandrake configuration system ended up broken.

BillK

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 06:38, Kai Großjohann wrote:
> Dylan Carlson <absinthe@pobox.com> writes:
> 
> > With regard to pointing out which changes have occurred between a release, 
> > I believe it should be left up to the user to view the release notes 
> > supplied by the software in /usr/share/doc and make the appropriate 
> > actions.  Or hope for good comments in the config file...
> 
> Hm?  Release notes...  Yeah, that might produce some useful data.
> 
> But I still think it would be more convenient for the user if Gentoo
> just produced the right diffs.
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