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Gert Cuykens wrote:

>can someone make a options i install everything so you don't have to
>push 58 times i enter i enter i enter i enter :) drives me nuts

An improvement to this process is hinted at in Gentoo's etc-update
script -- it shows you a big list of files, and each has a number.
>From the readline that follows, you can discard or manually merge
numbers 2, 5, 26, and 230, and then have the rest of the list merge
automatically, without being prompted.

It's practically civilised.


   chris.