<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=UTF-8"> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="GtkHTML/3.24.1.1"> </HEAD> <BODY> I am coming from Gentoo, where there was an excellent tool "etc-update" and you could define your diff tool to be anything you wanted. So as you went through each updated /etc file (after an 'emerge world' for example), it would load the new /etc file and your existing one into this amazing graphical diff tool called 'meld' ( <A HREF="http://meld.sourceforge.net/">http://meld.sourceforge.net/</A> ). You'd make your changes, save and exit, then move on to the next /etc/ file to be investigated... All nice and automatic like. In Ubuntu, I'm a little concerned that something like this doesn't exist?? When I do updates, I'm given a rather useless menu IMHO that says things like: * install new version * keep old version * VIEW diffs -- this is useless because you can't do anything with them AFAIK but _view_ the differences. * three way diff view ...and there might be some others, but nowhere do I see a way to launch a user defined diff tool to interactively merge changes. Please tell me this is possible. </BODY> </HTML>