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 1QREl0-0000Q9-Ok for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 02:32:34 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 08AEB1C0CB; Tue, 31 May 2011 02:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f181.google.com (mail-gx0-f181.google.com [209.85.161.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C87801C0CB for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 02:29:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so2282901gxk.40 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 19:29:28 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to :subject:references:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=TPijkTKqR7WW+n1ms3dplFR71VB7oA5j3P6qUt/HrAw=; b=Xn1+Y4Ew5kUB3CfYM1MaAYymMBTpqEcCCAedxWkt2npqd5pIq/TlMs8plK3wfIznZP xZtNU2AEOBARoHeqaQBoCDvgo/NQENuhsBU3iYJc4g65vPeK/RaOvXTUCJra/X0mq54N JVjyuG8MtZ62uThmbcXhir60mVMxEylYWV318= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=C/PtEC53gNWMF+R8DnRJczJ1knSbzU8SXQRL4NtpU0J2ralqbVRJwOOIOe/KjKicvp HBCVxrPjoY6O41xRFE6+eTQj4Fx4kbPG6ppU2H61ouMbmFIMRMwnxykioJALcxVzzrd6 8osDOhVk0L5nnoBcWLpWzQm1hV8atmwTcPu18= Received: by 10.236.168.103 with SMTP id j67mr5811809yhl.264.1306808968292; Mon, 30 May 2011 19:29:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.2.5] (adsl-98-95-108-236.jan.bellsouth.net [98.95.108.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w70sm3012463yhl.59.2011.05.30.19.29.26 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Mon, 30 May 2011 19:29:27 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DE45285.2020907@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 21:29:25 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.19) Gecko/20110517 Gentoo/2.0.14 SeaMonkey/2.0.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files References: <20110530230808.41ecb29a@karnak.local> In-Reply-To: <20110530230808.41ecb29a@karnak.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 9c383290ca98cba96acdd4d7d89105e7 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 :-) :-)