Justin Hart wrote: > > On 7/4/05, Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hello list, >> >>I've been using gdm and fluxbox for a long time, last weekend I did a >>complete update of the system, and changed all my config files to the >>new ones (REALLY stupid). So, I'm in a slow and painful recover >>process, nothing to difficult, but extremely boring. >> > Yeah, I have to echo that I rather dislike the config file system in > portage. It would be nice if there was an alternative to etc-update, > or something configurable to just copy in relevant sections, or cross > reference them. >
There is at least 1 alternative (maybe more). I overheard some people on the portage-dev list say that they use dispatch-conf instead (see man page). Zac -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list