Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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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