improving rpm

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:42 -0400, Aron Griffis wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:  [Wed Jul 12 2006, 04:26:26PM EDT]
> > > You are encouraged to take a look at how Gentoo manages with etc-update. 
> > > It's quite usable.  It doesn't automerge by default, of course, but 
> > > the UI is far better than the .rpmsave business.
> > > 
> > 
> > How well does it handle un-attended operation?
> 
> It doesn't.  Portage is designed for unattended operation too.
> etc-update is a tool you run afterward to handle the config conflicts.
> 

So then this shouldn't be tied into rpm at all. just an external tool to
deal with config file changes.

-sv