On Wednesday 01 June 2011 00:14:04 Neil Bothwick wrote: > It's quite simple logic... If a file is modified, it is no longer the file > portage installed, so portage does not uninstall it. If anything, the > problem is that the logic used by portage is too simple.
I don't think it's too simple. It seems exactly right for the task to me: clear, predictable and easily understood. > A customised file contains an investment of the user's time, a generic > file does not. That investment may be small or great, but it is not > for portage to determine that value and remove the file without the > user's consent. Personally, I'd be livid if portage were to remove my carefully crafted work from time immemorial, without so much as a by-your-leave. Anyone who wants to delete his own work is free to do so, but the rest of us ought not to be required to suffer it. -- Rgds Peter
