Stupid end-user tricks: darcs for /etc and /boot

[Alan McKinnon]

On Tuesday 20 June 2006 21:41, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> > I got tired of pouring over intimate details of every single /etc
> > file (and paying for it when I chose the wrong options). It's
> > that simple,
>
> Now, *that's* a valid complaint. But that complaint doesn't have
> anything to do with etc-update anymore. It's you who got tired and
> made wrong choices. There's just so much that Gentoo/etc-update can
> do about it. etc-update merges some "trivial" (I've got no idea
> what that is to be hones)

It's lines that differ only in the amount of whitespace, and it's the 
only real way etc-update (or ANY config updater on any distro for 
that matter) has to make life easier for the user

-- 
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how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
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