No, only the config files that are in a stage 3 should be left, some of
those will be edited and some will have been upgraded so they should be
left. It would be like emerge --unmerge --shallow world to take you back the
that original state so then any major changes could be made without
reinstalling as you would basically have an upgraded stage 3 after some
unmerging

On 12/12/05, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> George Prowse wrote:
> > yes but if you extracted a stage on to an already built system you would
> > not only have the the mess there that you wanted to get rid of but also
> > all your config files would revert back to older versions and you'd lose
> > any changes made.
>
> ...
>
> > because i'd rather not use depclean but also depclean doesn't get rid of
> > the configs left by any packages, for instance: if i had xfce on my
> > system before and i did  emerge -C xorg-x11 && emerge depclean xfce
> > would be wiped off but if i emerged xfce again there would still be
> > modified parts that would use the options i selected on the previous
> > version.
>
> It really sounds like you're contradicting yourself here. You don't want
> your config files overwritten, but you don't want your config files used
> when you remerge the packages?
>
> Thanks,
> Donnie
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