Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-13 Thread Stroller
On 12 Feb 2006, at 17:40, Maarten wrote: 1) "The Gentoo Way" says that gentoo shouldn't make that decision for you. Nah. I think "The Gentoo Way" translates to... After three of four years of using Gentoo my experience is that "The Gentoo Way" translates differently depending upon the o

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Maarten
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 12 February 2006 07:37, Maarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about > '[gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC': > >>What tickles me the most about the current process is that one sometimes >>gets huge lists of updated files by updating a single package

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Maarten
Rumen Yotov wrote: > On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 14:37 +0100, Maarten wrote: > > Hi, > Check "cfg-update" it's in portage, and i think it the better. > i'm using it together with "dispatch-conf" but think if switching > completely to 'cfg-update' (or mostly at least). > Check the forums for additional

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Maarten
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:37:41 +0100, Maarten wrote: > > >>What tickles me the most about the current process is that one sometimes >>gets huge lists of updated files by updating a single package. A package >>which may have never been used, or at least configured, by the user

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 12 Feb 2006 14:37:41 +0100, Maarten wrote: > What tickles me the most about the current process is that one sometimes > gets huge lists of updated files by updating a single package. A package > which may have never been used, or at least configured, by the user. > For instance, updating w

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 12 February 2006 07:37, Maarten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about '[gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC': > What tickles me the most about the current process is that one sometimes > gets huge lists of updated files by updating a single package. A package > which may have never be

Re: [gentoo-user] Handling of config updates, RFC

2006-02-12 Thread Rumen Yotov
On Sun, 2006-02-12 at 14:37 +0100, Maarten wrote: > Hi > > I have not been impressed by the handling of configfiles (updating them) > by neither etc-update nor dispatch-conf, so I pondered on an > alternative. Not an alternative to those packages, but some extra help, > possibly integrated into on