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<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 12/12/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Donnie Berkholz</b> <<a href="mailto:spyderous@gentoo.org">spyderous@gentoo.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> George Prowse wrote:<br>> yes but if you extracted a stage on to an already built system you would<br>> not only have the the mess there that you wanted to get rid of but also<br>> all your config files would revert back to older versions and you'd lose <br>> any changes made.<br><br>...<br><br>> because i'd rather not use depclean but also depclean doesn't get rid of<br>> the configs left by any packages, for instance: if i had xfce on my<br>> system before and i did emerge -C xorg-x11 && emerge depclean xfce <br>> would be wiped off but if i emerged xfce again there would still be<br>> modified parts that would use the options i selected on the previous<br>> version.<br><br>It really sounds like you're contradicting yourself here. You don't want <br>your config files overwritten, but you don't want your config files used<br>when you remerge the packages?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Donnie<br>--<br><a href="mailto:gentoo-dev@gentoo.org">gentoo-dev@gentoo.org</a> mailing list <br><br></blockquote></div><br>