[SOLVED] Upgrading to KDE 4.8 shows "kdmrc.pacnew"

Hello
first sorry for my english
12 hours ago I did a # pacman-Syu and it appears the update to kde4.8.
Some 500 mb later, no error in the update, review the log file in the same console and see a line saying that the downloaded file / usr / share / config / kdm / kdmrc is installed as / usr / share / config / kdm / kdmrc.pacnew
I know the purpose of this is to rename kdmrc.pacnew to kdmrc if no changes or if I have customized the kdmrc, so I make a Kompare of the two files to check ... and. .. my surprise ... the former has 71 lines and kdmrc.pacnew ...591! so I do not know what to compare ... half of the lines of the old kdmrc match but the rest are new and most commented (indicating uncomment to use different options than the default)
What should I do? Do I need to rename the old. "Old" (for example) and "kdmrc.pacnew" moved to "kdmrc"?
I left the pc switched on until a response ... I dare not to shut down
regards and thanks
P. S. Kompare application is curious ... What will the "apply the difference"? ¿Merge the old configuration with the new?
Last edited by ppsalama (2012-01-29 14:29:21)

guelfi wrote:Then why don't you do this? If you didn't customize kdmrc, it is completely safe to rename the kdmrc to kdmrc.pacnew. If you did, your changes will be lost. That's the worst thing that could happen, because the new kdmrc will work (as it is the stock kdmrc).
I don't know the changes to kdm with kde 4.8 (I don't even use kde), but I think kdm is more likely to break if you don't use the new config.
Thanks guelfi...
I'm agree with you... I think I didn't customize kdmrc (maybe the kdm theme and the default user to show). Only I would like if someone did the renaming without issues and if I must to merge the files for more security.
Thanks again

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