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
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