beating mergemaster to /etc/rc.d

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Wed, 12 Jan 2005 22:29, Anton Berezin wrote:
> > Note that there are still risks in blindly applying CVS changes.  There
> > have been a couple of cases where defaults have changed meaning that
> > corresponding changes to local system configuration is required to
> > retain previous behaviour.
>
> Yeah, the possibility to shoot yourself if the foot is always there.  On
> the other hand, I would expect that 1) changes in defaults should be in
> UPDATING, and 2) most people qi<enter> such files (say, for
> /etc/defaults/rc.conf) without looking too closely into the actual
> diffs.

Those default changes are always (or should always be :) UPDATING fodder..

*cough*etcmerge*cough* :)

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