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Bug 11448

Summary: man page for etc-udpate stinks
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Philippe Fremy <pfremy>
Component: [OLD] Core systemAssignee: SpanKY <vapier>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal CC: carpaski, lostlogic
Priority: High    
Version: 1.4_rc1   
Hardware: x86   
OS: Linux   
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Runtime testing required: ---
Bug Depends on: 14079    
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Description Philippe Fremy 2002-12-01 09:28:59 UTC 
There are better merge client than sdiff. I would be glad to use one. For
example, KDE has kompare that seems to be working pretty fine. I think gnome has
one too (gtk-diff ?).

Anyway, being able to specify the merge client in the same way I specify my
download manager would be nice.

Of course, a text fallback is also needed in case of a graphical client.
Comment 1 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-12-01 16:03:32 UTC 
Uhh... etc-update.conf you can select a merge command already.
Comment 2 Philippe Fremy 2002-12-02 14:16:05 UTC 
Sorry for wasting your time but how could I have known ?   
 
man etc-update -> nothing about /etc/etc-update.conf  
man emerge -> nothing about this  
portage user guide -> nothing about this  
etc-update --help -> nothing  
portage reference manual -> nothing  
 
So yes, I could have read the source or scanned the 133 files in /etc for a 
config file. But I did not. 
 
Please do at least update the man page.
Comment 3 Brandon Low (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2002-12-02 14:39:43 UTC 
trunuf... 

mention etc-update.conf at least somewhere in the man page... nick can you add
this for me?