Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

[Volker Armin Hemmann]

On Thursday 02 June 2011 21:28:48 David W Noon wrote:
> On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:00:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re:
>
> [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:
> >On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:26:44 +0100, David W Noon wrote:
> [snip]
>
> >> Now, nearly everybody modifies /etc/updatedb.conf.  This does not
> >> remove that name from mlocate's manifest.  So, Portage knows
> >> precisely to which package the file belongs.  Hence I think your
> >> assertion of "I don't know what this is," is specious.
> >
> >You have picked an excellent example, because mlocate is not the
> >package that owns or has owned /etc/updatedb.conf, slocate does too.
>
> Wrong.
>
> One can (well, could) only have one of slocate and mlocate installed at
> any given time.  Whichever one is installed owns /etc/updatedb.conf,
> unless both have been unmerged and the file is a remnant, but it cannot
> be owned by both.  Moreover, slocate has been deleted from the main
> Portage tree, so it doesn't own anything any more.

and it is still installed on some systems. And there is no reason to remove it 
on uninstalling slocate if you plan to install mlocate.

Don't touch things you did not install.

Is the only sane rule for packet manager.