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On Mon, 30 May 2011 21:20:01 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: |
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[gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: |
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>On Mon, 30 May 2011 19:05:10 +0100, David W Noon wrote: |
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>> The only algorithmic approach with which I would feel comfortable |
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>> would be if the file were checked against the previous contents of a |
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>> package and found present, but has disappeared from the new contents |
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>> of that same package. Even then, I would want manual confirmation. |
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>That omits the most common cause of orphaned files, that the package |
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>owning it has been unmerged. |
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You have just touched on an annoyance of unmerge, in that it does not |
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clean up configuration files that have been modified. It removes files |
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that are still in the same state as when the package was emerged, but |
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not those modified by the user. I don't see how user changes make the |
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file more important than would be in its vanilla state. |
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Perhaps an option to remove (by an unmerge, not etc-update or the |
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like) these genuinely orphaned files could be set in /etc/make.conf. |
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Regards, |
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Dave [RLU #314465] |
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