etc-update takes a long time to use when there are over a hundred config files to update, and automerging isn't usually going to work for power users. If users could automerge all config files in a directory like /etc/pam.d/ or /etc/xinet.d/ -- directories where users may know they haven't changed any config files--it would cut down on the hundred very quickly. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Why not use dispatch-conf? /etc/dispatch-conf.conf <snip> # Automerge files comprising only CVS interpolations (e.g. Header or Id) # (yes or no) replace-cvs=yes # Automerge files comprising only whitespace and/or comments # (yes or no) replace-wscomments=yes # Automerge files that the user hasn't modified # (yes or no) replace-unmodified=yes </snip>
