on Saturday 08/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
 > On Sat, 30 Aug 2008 03:03:07 +0200, Matthias Bethke wrote:
 > 
 > > > # etc-update 
 > > > [...]
 > > > File: /etc/portage/._cfg0000_package.use
 > > > [...]
 > > > What is it about?  
 > > 
 > > No, I didn't see it, but it looks like some package moved to another
 > > category or got renamed so portage patched package.use for you.
 > 
 > That's exactly what happened.
 > 
 > > Try
 > > dispatch-config, preferably with vimdiff and perhaps RCS support, it
 > > makes maintaining your config so much easier than etc-update.
 > 
 > I used dispatch-config for years, but have now switched to conf-update
 > after Alan recommended it.

What is the advantage of conf-update over cfg-update which I have been
using for quite a while?

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