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From: David W Noon <dwnoon@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:04:52
Message-Id: 20110601195851.6e2018f6@karnak.local
1 On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:20:01 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
2 Cleaning redundant configuration files:
3
4 >Even if the -C option is used, I would still want it to be something
5 >extra to remove config files. As stated before, I sometimes emerge -C
6 >a package then emerge it again. I still want the config files to be
7 >left alone tho. I have also had to do this before for *B*lockers
8 >where portage couldn't do it itself for whatever reason.
9
10 See my follow-up to Volker Armin Hemman on this.
11
12 >I would think this would be a idea on this. Do a emerge -C to get the
13 >regular way and a emerge -CC to remove everything literally, including
14 >config files.
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16 I don't think that conforms to getopt() processing of the command line
17 options. The single hyphen options normally have only a single letter.
18 But I suppose it could be treated as -C specified twice, which would be
19 equally mnemonic.
20 --
21 Regards,
22
23 Dave [RLU #314465]
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