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[Rob Verkuylen <rob AT verkuylen.net>]

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Hi ppl,

As I come from a more Debian background before I wised up,
and having experienced some problems with config files being overwritten 
after 
a spell update, I´d like to volunteer to work on the following and like to 
hear any comments and or suggestions:

For the ones that are not familliar with debian a shot explanation:
Debian´s apt-get has a simple but effective way of handling config files 
being 
overwritten. It alerts the user when a file wil be overwritten and gives some 
options: 
1. Overwrite (the old file will be renamed to configfile.backup)
2. Show diff oldfile newfile
3. Do not overwrite
4. Put on hold and deal with it later

This is all being done in a shell, very crude, but really effective.
(The way we like it ;) )

This seems to be a nice addition to casting, solving some of the frustrations
users(including me) have had to go through, when losing their configs after 
an 
update.

Thanks for the feedback!
Rob



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