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 1QRsjB-00075i-Mh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 21:13:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 80A2F1C095; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C2511C095 for ; Wed, 1 Jun 2011 21:11:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yxm8 with SMTP id 8so122091yxm.40 for ; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:11:10 -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=wOvfvkF3A1CZBzb5damsuYNfPZFDdPOebFsGwG8J3D8=; b=pQ8KTlURHdFeBZllBT52NKTu3wbxds5y/fLIBCFgtMMHEJqeTX2YXUQNuR53XU5Izg hmgULs87PWJ8OD6ZSE955sdXRCos+c2cohrv/0l3T6h3CwAB7QXby5wbd33UDWkchpSY IxUTqZbcHJCkYERBvP2tnwPTvUiwbHmf0c8fs= 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=iRpq8ToJwazjJ5qEpAS676IdD3v0Iqod7aAng4epDM8Rg2iM9ulky29pFW7nAlvPQw vUt+URqaQiH+LUyRvo14k5cxls3yUD0UfGVYgS0nisfvIC9WRec4zBOoW3LFZEjMgVrc eGREAEnxBnP2dGY+kjww7HsEbBI5ctmwEnw1k= Received: by 10.236.70.163 with SMTP id p23mr8777920yhd.236.1306962670676; Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:11:10 -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 n29sm1520298yhj.82.2011.06.01.14.11.08 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:11:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4DE6AAEB.8060805@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:11:07 -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: <20110601195332.4a04f985@karnak.local> In-Reply-To: <20110601195332.4a04f985@karnak.local> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 4fa714cf45dc76287493da55dfa14b08 David W Noon wrote: > That's easy: if you know you are going to reinstall after deleting, > just take a backup copy of those files you have modified, which is > usually only the one configuration file. After the reinstallation, > restore from your backup. > > Alternatively, you can switch the suggested option to "off", either on > the command line or in /etc/make.conf. > > This is a fairly rare occurrence, and it should be planned -- including > the making of a backup. > For me, wanting the config files removed is what is so very rare. As to the backups, I make backups but not before every time I emerge/unmerge something. Requiring users to do all that is worse than just deleting the config files manually. Dale :-) :-)