> Is there "accepted common practice", then?  i.e., "After your `make universe'
> is done, go rummage through /etc and <insert others here> and if you find
> anything newer, diff it against what you've got and merge in the new changes"?

I don't know about commonly accepted, but that's about what I do.

It might be nice if there were a make target which would check RCS Ids and
figure out which files need to be inspected.

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