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 1QRYno-0004sI-21 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 23:56:49 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C82C51C07A; Tue, 31 May 2011 23:55:22 +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 97E4F1C07A for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 23:55:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywl2 with SMTP id 2so2837598ywl.40 for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 16:55:22 -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=jVq4Hb0KwVln6F82QrfeO8+/MRnNzGTj3ceG5mSCZ6U=; b=SHoUBaHyluhaWtJQ3Pss5AJ1Us/AKcel8nzJ8iDZwqyFFKAUTtj24tH+8YwUl6W2AM /9cR1ILvPDWPKF8u1OBH7JVjrsDb4z48Og1ZOfs1G7a21+PPPz7fr1VxISgG5bTCj3SE WlIo96IgBe4siOuEH/aD4bwPyzIFHDOTSoGVE= 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=Toz/IjDEtoxdnnM2FmBoid1nD25UDCj8UdrYgGSJIg5s36GPbR0lBAhtHN2q9Zkr/B FC7DksIQSVow9xCMqPes2QKbUb4EDFHKWezsV9LYkgVnxy4F+k+n9nHIJ8wLB3o46Ade mwxWApNeelpwnu8AiVlQUhumAayFcLZT1aCNM= Received: by 10.236.181.164 with SMTP id l24mr7943532yhm.198.1306886122100; Tue, 31 May 2011 16:55:22 -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 i61sm595791yhe.47.2011.05.31.16.55.20 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Tue, 31 May 2011 16:55:21 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DE57FE7.4020107@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 18:55:19 -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> <20110601000513.24c6edc3@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20110601000513.24c6edc3@digimed.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 3cbccb0b9b660e586fa738d8db95fb62 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 31 May 2011 23:43:59 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > > >> 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. >> > Sometimes it is necessary to unmerge a package before emerging a newer > version, either manually or by portage, to resolve blockers. Making > unmerge remove all config files would cause breakage in such a case. > > There's a reason why the CONFIG_PROTECT variable is so named. > > > I had thought of something like that being done manually but didn't think of portage doing it itself. That's a better reason than mine even tho it does the same thing. Dale :-) :-)