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Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 18:15:26 -0500
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files
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Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:06:23 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>    
>> 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.
>>      
> So a bit of keyboard bounce can nuke your configs? No thanks. I'd rather
> have an explicit option, like --purge.
>
>    

True.  Of course, I always check my typing but others may not.  So, your 
idea is better than mine.

+1 for the new idea.

Dale

:-)  :-)