> -----Original Message-----
> From: A. Khattri [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> Sent: 05 August 2005 14:14
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Some intelligence in etc-update... please.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 4 Aug 2005, Zac Medico wrote:
> 
> > You could try dispatch-conf (see manpage) or emerge conf-update.
> > Unfortunately, etc-update has many known bugs.  The problem you
> > mentioned sounds like bug 26807.
> 
> Both etc-update and dispatch-conf have good and bad points - none
> of them are ideal tools. For example, it would be nice if 
> etc-update could
> archive config files into CVS. On the other hand, Im using 
> vimdiff with
> etc-update which makes comparing config files very easy - 
> dispatch-conf
> doesn't use vimdiff. Ive used both and ultimately stayed with 
> etc-update
> (the colors in vimdiff make it easier to work with).
> 
You can always emerge colordiff and change your etc-update.conf and/or
dispatch-conf.conf to use it.  Lovely colours all around.  :)

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