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Subject:    RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo is not fun when...
From:       Philippe FREMY <P.FREMY () OBERTHURCS ! com>
Date:       2002-12-13 9:51:13
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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 <ssharma@odc.net> 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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