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 1QRXsd-0007aX-Ht for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 22:57:46 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2908A1C040; Tue, 31 May 2011 22:56:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f53.google.com (mail-yw0-f53.google.com [209.85.213.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEB1D1C040 for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 22:56:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywl2 with SMTP id 2so2817875ywl.40 for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 15:56:16 -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=Z6JdCnWJPHd1L+Gr00nifMiIgSDHZjTPjU3/pNgF+lY=; b=FunkA99yHtB/heGywr8nYqtsJy8reQ2LNjTDQkzJJ30/FJ1QLGkOcYk4llbPNRO219 aBWb7CJs6oK13vU9/RNSm3VjB743u6TKYpK/Gjomt9/35lsVXAazuzD5wiGkjJ5ewf3Y ryk6tNraCZSavJU+vS/hTr5GMYyGSCD73oZ8c= 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=wKnVdjNSHdyaSBy1nKYa4snEwjSS4erTQhate1XfWAmp6RpEjYgJVq60o6924TZBv6 1mlI3KstEqbbA0ORQRtrK0gku+OuYYRF2qBEuUT4A28FbdBFhln+YJyxFUg98Ef40c9i 3m6I0AOkEshGmNaMX1qF1A429D0zJiypne1XU= Received: by 10.91.98.16 with SMTP id a16mr2672821agm.127.1306882576230; Tue, 31 May 2011 15:56:16 -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 x14sm326968ani.33.2011.05.31.15.56.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 31 May 2011 15:56:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DE5720D.6060703@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 17:56:13 -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: <20110531234359.4cd16dd7@karnak.local> In-Reply-To: <20110531234359.4cd16dd7@karnak.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: d90c31d9bacf721529ecacdf1bca709d David W Noon wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2011 22:40:01 +0200, Mick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] > Cleaning redundant configuration files: > > >> On Tuesday 31 May 2011 17:26:43 David W Noon wrote: >> > [snip] > >>> To repeat myself: I do not see a customized configuration file as >>> being any more important than a vanilla one. If I understand a >>> configuration file well enough to customize it once, I remain >>> capable of customizing it again after a reinstall. >>> >> I would *not* want to have to reconfigure sendmail, apache, mrtg, or >> umpteen other files from scratch if you don't mind. >> > In that case, do not unmerge them. Just upgrade as needed. > > Remember that I am writing purely about *unmerged* packages. In the > case of a rebuild or upgrade, customizations would be preserved just > as they are now. > I have in the past unmerged a package, checked to make sure it is all gone and then emerged it again. I think this type of situation is what people are talking about. Since I have done this myself, I wouldn't want the config files to be deleted and others seem to be talking about the same thing. That's my take on it at least. It should be a option but not something that is done by default. Dale :-) :-)