RFC: etcupdate tool in base?

[Mike Jakubik]

On 6/10/2010 2:47 PM, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 10/06/2010 21:29 Eitan Adler said the following:
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>> -1 unless mergemaster is replaced.
> Have you tried etcupdate?
> etcupdate and mergemaster have a similar function but do things in quite a
> different way.  While one is intended to be more interactive, the other is more
> automated.  They can not replace each other.
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>

-1 Also.

How does this differ from a "mergemaster -iFU" ? That's pretty much as 
automated as it can get.