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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Valmor de Almeida <val.gentoo@gmail.com> wrote:
> Should these have been eliminated or do I need to do it by hand or
> something else still needs it?

I think you should do it by hand.

In general, you can assume portage will never delete any config files
or anything from /etc without your involvement (either manually or
with etc-update or similar).