At the moment, dispatch-conf is very "hair-triggery": an action is performed with a single keypress. While its configuration archiving admittedly makes mistakes easier to undo, it would probably be better to make the process less error-prone to begin with. I suggest using line-reading for the input, like etc-update: i.e. a return press is needed after entering a command, and backspace can be used to change it. (etc-update's use of mv -i/rm -i is probably overkill.) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: n/a Actual Results: - absolutely_vital_line="keep_working" >> (5 of 23) -- /etc/something/important >> q quit, h help, n next, e edit-new, z zap-new, u use-new m merge, t toggle-merge, l look-merge: [press 'u', go "oops!", go archive-digging] Expected Results: - absolutely_vital_line="keep_working" >> (5 of 23) -- /etc/something/important >> q quit, h help, n next, e edit-new, z zap-new, u use-new m merge, t toggle-merge, l look-merge: [press 'u', go "oops!", press BACKSPACE, 'z', ENTER, go "phew!"] n/a
Putting a hold on feature requests for portage as they are drowning out the bugs. Most of these features should be available in the next major version of portage. But for the time being, they are just drowning out the major bugs and delaying the next version's progress. Any bugs that contain patches and any bugs for etc-update or dispatch-conf can be reopened. Sorry, I'm just not good enough with bugzilla. ;)
Reopening for consideration
+1
