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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] strange portage behaviour
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2008 22:35:48
Message-Id: 48811B72.1010605@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] strange portage behaviour by "Alin Năstac"
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4 Alin Năstac wrote:
5 > Portage no longer install ._cfg0000_* files for the CONFIG_PROTECTed
6 > files touched by the user. Even if I remove the package and reinstall it
7 > again, the protected file will remain like it is.
8 >
9 > Can someone enlighten me?
10 >
11
12 It's common for people get get confused like this by the "confmem"
13 behavior that's built into portage's merge process. You can use
14 - --noconfmem to disable it.
15
16 In newer versions of portage (those not marked stable yet),
17 uninstalling a package or downgrading it will automatically trigger
18 behavior like --noconfmem [1], so hopefully this will help to avoid
19 some confusion in the future.
20
21 Zac
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23 [1] http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/portage?rev=10250&view=rev
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Re: [gentoo-dev] strange portage behaviour "Alin Năstac" <mrness@g.o>