Bug 88417

Summary:	etc-update / dispatch-conf should be run automatically if necessary
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Robert <bytewise>
Component:	Tools	Assignee:	Portage Tools Team <tools-portage>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Robert 2005-04-08 17:49:05 UTC

It would be nice if after emerging something it not only told me to run etc-update / dispatch-conf, but actually run it. This would probably have to go hand in hand with a config option which tool to use for merging config files, if there will still be more than one in the future.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-09 08:35:50 UTC

ehm, let me think about this for a second, ... no.
Main reason is that emerge is supposed to be non-interactive (and I wouldn't trust any non-interactive config update tools).

Comment 2 Robert 2005-04-09 12:27:52 UTC

What about a config option that desktop users like myself could set that would make emerge call a (configured) config merging tool after finishing?

Comment 3 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2005-04-10 08:45:45 UTC

there will be generic post-emerge hooks at some point, not sure when though.