W dniu 04.01.2021 o 19:54, Enji Cooper pisze: > >> On Jan 4, 2021, at 10:49 AM, Marek Zarychta <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.
Dear Enji, to satisfy your curiosity: Yes, I have tried etcupdate(8) a few times over years. It works fine, but I don't like the idea of editing conflicted files. I won't complain about etcupdate(8), but please leave mergemaster(8) as is. I believe we need both: solid, fast black boxes driven it auto mode and fragile tools in the base. mergemaser is rather not a potential security hole in the system. With kind regards, -- Marek Zarychta
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