Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files

[Graham Murray]

Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> writes:

> There are times that if portage removed a config file, I would not be
> happy.  Sometimes I unmerge a package then remerge but want to keep
> the config files.
>
> Would I like there to be the option, yep, I sure would.  There are
> also times when I want to get rid of a package and all its config
> files.  The option would be nice but it should be a option.

I think that the ideal would be if portage could set some kind of
'marker' so that etc-update, dispatch-conf etc could prompt the user as
to whether to keep or remove the orphaned file.