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From: John Nilsson <john@×××××××.nu>
To: Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unmerging and CONFIG_PROTECT
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 10:28:32
Message-Id: 1077877723.5817.25.camel@newkid.milsson.nu
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Unmerging and CONFIG_PROTECT by Jason Stubbs
1 I was trying to respond to this message. However I didn't manage to find
2 any questionsmarks! =)
3
4 I do agree though, an unmerge should remove as much as possible from the
5 system (I could even use the OPTION of cleaning out ~/.<pkg> files frome
6 time to time).
7
8 -John
9
10 On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 09:41, Jason Stubbs wrote:
11 > Hi all,
12 >
13 > I was cleaning out my /etc directory as I do every so often and I came to
14 > wondering why those files needed to be protected when unmerging. Any
15 > unmodified configuration files will be restored upon re-emerging a package
16 > and any modified configuration files will be left behind anyway.
17 >
18 > If anyone can see situation where this behaviour could be detrimental, please
19 > reply here for further discussion and add a comment to bug #43066 if a
20 > similar comment does not exist already.
21 >
22 > Regards,
23 > Jason Stubbs
24 >
25 > --
26 > gentoo-dev@g.o mailing list
27 >

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