From gentoo-user Fri Dec 13 09:51:13 2002
From: Philippe FREMY
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:51:13 +0000
To: gentoo-user
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is not fun when...
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I saw a wish-list item with someone asking for version control on etc files.
That would be the definite solution.
Philippe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henti Smith [mailto:bain@tcsn.co.za]
> Sent: Friday, December 13, 2002 11:34 AM
> To: Ajay Sharma
> Cc: rod@sunsetsystems.com; gentoo-user@gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is not fun when...
>
>
> On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:52:26 -0800 (PST)
> Ajay Sharma wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 12 Dec 2002, Rod Roark wrote:
> >
> > > rod root # emerge --update baselayout
> > > Calculating dependencies ...done!
> > > ...
> > > [much snipped]
> > > ...
> > > * IMPORTANT: 39 config files in /etc need updating.
> > >
> > > Arrgh!
> >
> > 'etc-update' makes times like this not suck so much.
>
> A nice feature would still be to edit the one's you knwo
> needs "manual" checking and then let it update the rest of
> the static ones ..
> Usually I only merge or keep make.conf and a few others ..
> most stuff in /etc/init.d can be updated as per normal ?
>
> any chance for such a feature ?
>
> henti
>
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