On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > There are three competing utilities for this purpose. The official etc-update > (which sucks and should have been deprecated a long time ago... ;) ), > dispatch-conf and cfg-update.
Actually all the update tools have pros and cons. For example, looking at diffs using vim via etc-update is easier to read than dispatch-conf. The fact that dispatch-conf can use archiving is nice but it uses the (archaic) rcs tool to do it. For me, seeing the diffs clearly is more important... -- A -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list