From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QRuLO-0002NL-Ja for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 22:56:54 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DE0EA1C013; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91EC81C013 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 22:55:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wwj40 with SMTP id 40so297722wwj.10 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:55:05 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references :in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding :message-id; bh=dZhQgzOxF17EM1fixqXdnVGtEcPQN4wf/rPH/3i2QXE=; b=jGzZoYVQkYYou3/3eyC5J8U7YyCPI6yWsNNwrikv7OOVYMx2P3Am4GNHBjoF1OQg2b EUUGed4EvQCu+gm7AChzTJ10eZXK4pjyhOe7hZ3D9vwUfzzz3sMBwwf5cFvPetkJfy9O R1CuWX+W7JG1oL6GTpxkNhYIZXmPiUhTmhrvg= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=J5r6183BtT0FR3UbaaG2G7mzFzADDClH9FHxfo/6BpRMXdpAnHIR44ZNGL2kpr4Rnx U3GhMUWtX1BFH43k1jGQek3pUhYRTx0EeN5rqqa0zCiO+7A88qp3Lb0NJ3Avejs9VZ2M fXjnQOpTCR/iVn8UP9hnh26+KX6oukCAHNZG4= Received: by 10.227.2.144 with SMTP id 16mr57102wbj.9.1306968905844; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:55:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (196-215-91-253.dynamic.isadsl.co.za [196.215.91.253]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gb6sm13603wbb.34.2011.06.01.15.55.03 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 01 Jun 2011 15:55:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 00:54:24 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.7 (Linux/2.6.39-ck; KDE/4.6.3; x86_64; ; ) References: <20110601165231.53e856e5@karnak.local> In-Reply-To: <20110601165231.53e856e5@karnak.local> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201106020054.25192.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 2b0d6553af6eabcc77fb87a7449d93cb Apparently, though unproven, at 17:52 on Wednesday 01 June 2011, David W Noon did opine thusly: > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 17:20:03 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote about Re: > > [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: > >Sounds like you want a --really-all suboption to -C > > Basically, yes. I want it on -C and -c runs of emerge. > > This means it would not be applicable to upgrade or rebuild runs, when > they do their removal of files from the previous version. In fact, > rebuilds seldom remove files from the previous version, as it is the > same as the new version; only USE flag changes can mess with the > package manifest. > > >You could submit a feature request at b.g.o. but I feel the odds of > >getting it implemented (or even a working patch accepted at all) are > >rather low. > > > >Your suggestion runs counter to the general philosophy that runs > >through Gentoo. > > In what way? Since it would be an option, it would not diminish the > control the user has over the machine. If you can provide solid examples where standard Gentoo tools do this operation: "I don't know what this is, but I'm just going to delete/modify/change it anyway" then I'll concede you may have a point and be willing to discuss it further. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com