On Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:41:58 +0100 Edward Catmur <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 16:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: | > Is this a feature or a bug? It seems that emerge -C will not remove | > any altered files from /etc/ once it has been changed. | > | > This really leaves some cruft in my /etc/ Is this due to | > config-protect or is it something else?? | | No, portage will not remove any files that have been changed | (actually, had their mtime altered) wherever on the filesystem they | reside. | | This is a feature.
It isn't what's happening here, however. Portage won't unmerge anything that's CONFIG_PROTECTed. Yet another reason /etc/init.d should be added to CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK... -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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