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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system?
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2010 06:04:20
Message-Id: 201002140801.51064.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? by Neil Bothwick
1 On Saturday 13 February 2010 22:43:39 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 13 Feb 2010 09:28:57 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
3 > > > /etc/ is CONFIG_PROTECTed, so emerge -e world will do just what the OP
4 > > > wants, rebuild everything without touching the configs.
5 > > >
6 > > > Of course, a backup of /etc is always a handy thing to have around
7 > > > anyway,
8 > >
9 > > For this case, it's probably easier to just tar /etc/ and untar it back
10 > > later.
11 > >
12 > > The OP then doesn't have to deal with 600+ conf-update complaints
13 >
14 > Run conf-update and press a then d :)
15
16 But I'm a paranoid snarky old git and that doesn't work for me!
17
18 If I get 600 entries in conf-update I feel compelled to examine each one and
19 decide individually. Just in case....
20
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23 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] How should I clean up my broken system? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>