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No, only the config files that are in a stage 3 should be left, some of |
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those will be edited and some will have been upgraded so they should be |
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left. It would be like emerge --unmerge --shallow world to take you back the |
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that original state so then any major changes could be made without |
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reinstalling as you would basically have an upgraded stage 3 after some |
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unmerging |
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On 12/12/05, Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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> George Prowse wrote: |
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> > yes but if you extracted a stage on to an already built system you would |
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> > not only have the the mess there that you wanted to get rid of but also |
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> > all your config files would revert back to older versions and you'd lose |
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> > any changes made. |
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> ... |
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> > because i'd rather not use depclean but also depclean doesn't get rid of |
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> > the configs left by any packages, for instance: if i had xfce on my |
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> > system before and i did emerge -C xorg-x11 && emerge depclean xfce |
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> > would be wiped off but if i emerged xfce again there would still be |
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> > modified parts that would use the options i selected on the previous |
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> > version. |
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> It really sounds like you're contradicting yourself here. You don't want |
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> your config files overwritten, but you don't want your config files used |
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> when you remerge the packages? |
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> Thanks, |
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> Donnie |
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