Re: vim, help files and vimrc

["James R. Van Zandt" <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>]

David Welton <davidw@gate.cks.com> writes:

>The debian conffile system has a weakness: there's no simple way to
>announce what the significance of a changed conffile at administrator
>decision time.

I was thinking the other day that when dpkg discovers a conffile has
been changed, it should display at least some of the differences
before asking the sysadmin what to do.  Something like:

   diff /etc/foo.conf /etc/foo.conf.dpkg-dist | head -18

(or however much will fit on the screen).  Would this be difficult to
add?

                        - Jim Van Zandt


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