Re: mergemaster feature suggestion...

Garance A Drosihn said:

> The problem is that the general solution is much harder to do
> than it first appears.  It is one thing to come up with a
> solution that works well for what "you" (ie, any one developer)
> need, but it is much more challenging to come up with a solution
> that everyone can always use, for every upgrade, and that they
> can rely on.  You can not have installworld just blindly
> removing files.  That tactic *will* cause trouble.
>
> The fact that this issue keeps coming up is a good indication
> that we need to do something.  Every once-in-while I try my
> own hand at implementing some solution, but so far I have not
> come up with anything that I am 100% happy with.
>

Adopting the etcmerge port while having the installation install a
fresh, reference /etc everytime for the comparison would solve this
and most other problems people are talking about.

Adam