> Other than that, I don't like gentoo's way of dealing with this > problems other than the fact they ship tooling to actually deal with > the 3-way merge pacman expects from the user. I'd welcome suggestions > on this and actually was not smart enough up to now to somehow have a > script dig up the old version's unmodified configuration file (to be > used in said merge). I know there's the pacman cache, but pacman > itself doesn't seem to need that to know there's a merge going on. > There's definitely potential in doing this that might benefit > everyone, please approach me for a follow-up. What's wrong with pacdiff(1)? That will happily call vimdiff, or meld, or whatever else you want in the background. Cheers, Bennett -- GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808
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