Very carefully. Like any other tool that can affect how you machine runs you should make sure you understand WHAT the tool will do before actually do it. In the case of the -5 option, I would ignore it if I were you.
My $.02 worth, =C= * * Cal Evans * http://www.christianperformer.com * Stay plugged in to your audience! * Svein Harald Soleim said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 02 August 2003 22:23, Stephane Brossier wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I emerge some ebuilds yesterday, and then i got a warning that I >> should run etc-update to merge some files. >> >> I used the "-5" option which automaticall merge the files, >> and it seems it deleted some of my config files such >> as /etc/fstab. >> I guess i missed something with the use of etc-update. >> How should we use that tool? > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
