Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

David W Noon wrote:
>
> You have just touched on an annoyance of unmerge, in that it does not
> clean up configuration files that have been modified.  It removes files
> that are still in the same state as when the package was emerged, but
> not those modified by the user.  I don't see how user changes make the
> file more important than would be in its vanilla state.
>
> Perhaps an option to remove (by an unmerge, not etc-update or the
> like) these genuinely orphaned files could be set in /etc/make.conf.
>    

There are times that if portage removed a config file, I would not be 
happy.  Sometimes I unmerge a package then remerge but want to keep the 
config files.

Would I like there to be the option, yep, I sure would.  There are also 
times when I want to get rid of a package and all its config files.  The 
option would be nice but it should be a option.

Dale

:-)  :-)