Summary: | etc-update usability enhancement | ||
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Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | mathias stearn <mstearn> |
Component: | [OLD] Core system | Assignee: | Portage team <dev-portage> |
Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
Severity: | trivial | ||
Priority: | High | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Hardware: | All | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Whiteboard: | |||
Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
Attachments: | Addresses the 3rd point |
Description
mathias stearn
2005-01-23 23:59:09 UTC
1 /etc/dispatch-conf.conf controls what happens. Created attachment 68415 [details] Addresses the 3rd point I think the decision to use colordiff as default would have to be made by someone higher up in development. According to the colordiff webpage [1], Debian has moved to colordiff by default. However, it is possible to change this line: diff_command="diff -uN %file1 %file2" to diff_command="colordiff -uN %file1 %file2" (or vimdiff, or whateverelse). Restating the -3 and -5 options is a very good idea. It's confusing for the beginner and ambiguous for the experienced user. Attached is an etc-update script with the suggested changes. I didn't have time to troubleshoot the version with the changes about listing only one name. But, I'll submit an updated version the next time I emerge. [1] http://colordiff.sourceforge.net/ 1) you can use colordiff, it's just not the default (not going to change that) 2) done for some time now 3) doesn't sound any clearer to me than the existing description ("older" and "newer" are dubious in this context). |