> On Jan 4, 2021, at 10:54 AM, Enji Cooper <yaneurab...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Jan 4, 2021, at 10:49 AM, Marek Zarychta <zarych...@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl >> <mailto:zarych...@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl>> wrote: > > … > >> Terrible idea IMHO, but I am only the weak voice from the userbase. >> >> It's like deprecating old, well-worn hammer in the favour of the nail >> gun. Why not deprecate biff(1), pom(6), nvi(1) etc.? > > Marek, > I’m curious: have you used etcupdate before instead of mergemaster? If > so when? If you ran into issues (UX as well as functional): could you please > report them on bugs.freebsd.org <http://bugs.freebsd.org/> ? > etcupdate is a less fragile tool that’s broken my systems less when > compared with mergemaster.
That reminds me, there is a feature gap (in the last 5~10 years I’ve used etcupdate) that I forgot about between mergemaster and etcupdate: in particular, mergemaster works when adding/removing new users and groups from /etc/passwd* and /etc/group, respectively, dealing with mtree files, the last time I checked. Apart from that, I don’t see a use for mergemaster (and in which case, the feature gap can be trimmed down/migrated to etcupdate). mergemaster has broken the configuration of my machines/VMs more than etcupdate has ever and I’ve used both tools for about the same time. Cheers, -Enji _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
