On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 9:47 AM Matt Connell <[email protected]> wrote: > > I usually try not to edit any files that are 'managed' by packages, but > sometimes it is unavoidable (eg. no thing.conf.d directory support), so > I wind up having to either accept the change and then re-edit it, or > zap the change and allow the file to get stale as the package is > updated, leading back to the first scenario regardless. >
Yeah, conf.d is a much better paradigm, but cfg-update dates back to when that wasn't popular, and of course there are still plenty of packages that don't support it today. Plus when you do need to manually edit a file you can do it in meld with 3-way diffs. -- Rich
