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On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:20:02 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote about |
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: |
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>On Wednesday 01 June 2011 15:57:58 David W Noon wrote: |
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>> I called it an "annoyance". Having to clean up obsolete |
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>> configuration files is just that, unless you can offer a better term. |
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>so - what happens when you uninstall a package to cleanly install it |
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>again? |
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>Happens from time to time - and I seriously would not want to see the |
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>carefully personalized config file be moved to the big blue electron |
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>pool in heaven. |
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That's easy: if you know you are going to reinstall after deleting, |
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just take a backup copy of those files you have modified, which is |
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usually only the one configuration file. After the reinstallation, |
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restore from your backup. |
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Alternatively, you can switch the suggested option to "off", either on |
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the command line or in /etc/make.conf. |
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This is a fairly rare occurrence, and it should be planned -- including |
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the making of a backup. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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dwnoon@××××××××.com (David W Noon) |
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