On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 08:22:19PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-09-16, Peter Kay - Syllopsium <syllops...@syllopsium.com> wrote: > > > > At the risk of a flaming, sysmerge is also a pain in the arse. Once you > > know how to use patch files and diff properly I'm sure it is absolutely > > wonderful, but it also copes badly with files that have not changed > > in any significant way. > > it's better at this in 4.6 than 4.5, and better again in -current. >
AFAIK debian won't magically merge your changed conffiles either. Or have they come up with artificial thought-reading intelligence?