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 1QRpq6-0008Cb-Et for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:08:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BEFF71C071; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 18:06:26 +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 7DEF31C071 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 18:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk9 with SMTP id 9so24834gxk.40 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:06:26 -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=UmU4nYM6yk1k44dT3uTff0XOmgJzmvH/dPT2ymXvGJ8=; b=OQvrbbDhW/A9eaXNx5KJzQqlTK3NaVRiXsw+c53iXcNX3SOh3n11aO/LMwiffJ0wOJ tdKntU0x5YOmMGI9mVt7SMNhbtGV/Ym7fB4aO3eFq77oOsJppshAXpK6YmgFp2KqviHE Wp79Vq1JxhgH5f32DnoRYYEnB9lJa+vTY1+AM= 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=MLR46RLyyOlHT/gcW8OoBWO+27mml/6TUSy3lbT6ufKS3p84XqxrCSOR3+fMBYJ5qQ IlVjaVRoIghdnZvCrfdQSJ3zVyIbmRK2XdhKk4H8C90q7MS4mDsmBj3gVhT1siqtERXc 66ytzAQKGpTnx7esMHxgCx1Ftz2eHu+8HsoO8= Received: by 10.236.139.202 with SMTP id c50mr6499140yhj.265.1306951585862; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:06:25 -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 f65sm1356699yhn.67.2011.06.01.11.06.24 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:06:25 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DE67F9F.8060402@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:06:23 -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: <20110601183547.3c862cd9@karnak.local> In-Reply-To: <20110601183547.3c862cd9@karnak.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 08c7a7941c6150d2ade0f0a0d2f7f6ba David W Noon wrote: > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:20:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: > > >> On Wed, 1 Jun 2011 15:57:58 +0100, David W Noon wrote: >> > [snip] > >>> Remember: we are discussing the COMPLETE DELETION of a >>> package, not an upgrade or rebuild. >>> >> We are discussing unmerge behaviour, unmerging is part of the upgrade >> and rebuild processes. >> > Now I see why we are talking/writing at cross purposes. > > What I am proposing I would apply only to -C or -c options on an emerge > command, not the internal actions during an upgrade/rebuild. I have > stated that several times in this thread, so I thought I had made > myself clear. > Even if the -C option is used, I would still want it to be something extra to remove config files. As stated before, I sometimes emerge -C a package then emerge it again. I still want the config files to be left alone tho. I have also had to do this before for *B*lockers where portage couldn't do it itself for whatever reason. I would think this would be a idea on this. Do a emerge -C to get the regular way and a emerge -CC to remove everything literally, including config files. As someone else posted, I seriously doubt the devs will do this. Possible but not likely. I like the idea but still want it to be something extra to get it and not the default for sure. Dale :-) :-)