Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user
Date: Mon, 30 May 2011 06:31:44
Message-Id: 87y61or997.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] haldaemon group/user by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> writes:
2
3 > In general, you can assume portage will never delete any config files
4 > or anything from /etc without your involvement (either manually or
5 > with etc-update or similar).
6
7 Do any of the config tools, etc-update, dispatch-conf, cfg-update etc,
8 ever prompt for removing a redundant file? In my experience they only
9 'trigger' for changed content within existing configuration files?