> On Monday 28 November 2005 04:15, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: >> Georg Grabler wrote: >> > On Monday 28 November 2005 10:20, Philip Dillon-Thiselton wrote: >> >>Well, fair enough but as I already said, he could update it as often >> as he likes if it was pkg'ed separately. I think most people have >> to do the .pacnew tango when they update their initscripts and >> that's frustrating when the scripts themselves have not changed at >> all. >> > >> > I didn't see a reason at all to update to the .pacnew files all the >> time. >> > >> > Some day i feel like looking over the files i do... sometimes there >> are good changes in which i adobt, like the new network profiles >> (thanks in this case again for this great update). >> >> Well, fair enough but if you are not running, for example, the latest >> rc.sysinit then what is the point of updating initscripts at all?! >> >> > I dont feel threatened to update all my files everytime i see there >> has been addad a .pacnew file, since this updates won't corrupt the >> system. >> > >> > Regards, >> > Grabler Georg >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > arch mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch >> >> _______________________________________________ >> arch mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch > > How hard would it be to enable some sort of semi auto updater to the > config files kind of like what Gentoo does. The updater lets you know > that there are updates available to the config files and lets you parse > though the file and add changes. Maybe even a little more > refined/better than the Gentoo one; maybe something that lets you know > there is a change, automagically make changes to the specific locations > in the file and gets your approval. This way, only NEW additions are > added and your settings are left alone. > > Thoughts??? > > Joe >
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