From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1Eltjj-0003QX-FL for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:53:27 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jBCJqXXH015677; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:52:33 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jBCJoldw019009 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:50:48 GMT Received: from xray.science.oregonstate.edu ([128.193.220.51] helo=[192.168.2.153]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.54) id 1Elth9-0000qS-BS for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:50:47 +0000 Message-ID: <439DD4D9.4070509@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 19:51:53 +0000 From: Donnie Berkholz User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050723) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System References: <36babadf0512111913k4d91d9b4m@mail.gmail.com> <439D08D1.2020108@leetworks.com> <36babadf0512121121p710ec1c9k@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <36babadf0512121121p710ec1c9k@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1ba4ec6f-9055-4f53-bca6-c7b18fa08101 X-Archives-Hash: 3a47f40ef8a8f0a113dfca39e7270641 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 -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list