On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 08:37:01AM -0700, Dan Gregory wrote: > I was thinking the other day how cumbersome (ok, it's not _that_ > cumbersome) it is to deal with config files each time I update my > system, and got the idea in my head that portage should use cvs (or > equivalent) to track changes to config files and apply those changes to > new versions of config files that come out. It would require that > everyone have cvs installed locally, and it wouldn't be all that great > for existing systems (cause you'd have to have the original config file > in cvs first), but for a new/future systems I think that it would make > portage more seamless when updating.
Portage doesn't need to track changes. You have dispatch-conf for this,
which is quite happy to work with RCS...
Wkr,
Sven Vermeulen
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