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Hi, |
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Alec Joseph Warner wrote: |
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>> I know CONFIG_PROTECT, but why isn't it ignored when removing a |
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>> package (not in case of upgrading of course)? |
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> Because portage errs on the side of you wanting your old config files. |
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Why should portage believe that? If I wanted to keep my config files, |
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I'd have made a backup before unmerging it. |
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> There are various scripts in bugzilla for cleaning out unowned files in |
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Hrm, I can't find one at best will. Could you show me such a bug? |
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> /etc. People have argued for portage removing initscripts and various |
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> deals with md5 hashing each file and removing it if the hashes match, |
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> but I don't believe anything like that has made it in. |
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Apparently. I now found bug #42027, which has not been touched since |
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march 2004 :(. I still think we really should change this |
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(mis)behaviour, since it will pollute /etc unnecessarily for probably |
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>99% of the users and help very few who forgot to back up their config |
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files before unmerging a package. However, this it should not be |
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portage's responsibility to protect the user from his own stupidity -- |
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we aren't programming windows apps, are we? ;) |
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Thanks in advance, |
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Simon Stelling |
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Gentoo/AMD64 Operational Co-Lead |
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blubb@g.o |
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