Re: use diff tool before actually make changes

Carlos Garnacho <[email protected]> Tue, 18 May 2004 01:53:39 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.system-tools
Message-ID <1084838019.714.20.camel__27927.7045432993$1084838078@filemon>
Hi,

First of all, sorry for the delay :(


El dom, 16-05-2004 a las 17:26, +0700, pclouds escribió:
> Hi,
> I have an idea from Gentoo's etc-update. Instead of gst saving changes
> directly to file, it creates a new config file and uses a diff tool
> such as meld to show differences between the old one and the new
> one. Then users can accept changes or modify themselves. It is ok?

hmm, I really think that the tools are made for being user-friendly,
regardless of the distro that's below :)

> 
> BTW, i would like to contribute gentoo support for
> services-admin. Has services-admin supported gentoo already?
> 
> I'm considering gentoo support for network-admin too, but it's a bit
> hard because gentoo holds net info in a bash script with lots of
> comments for manually editting. Is there any bash parser yet?

hmmm, I'm glad/sorry to say that full gentoo support has been already
added in the 0.33 release, you may give it a try :)

	Thank you very much

> Regards,
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> Bi Cờ Lao
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