On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:20:01 +0200, Dale wrote about Re: [gentoo-user]
Cleaning redundant configuration files:

>Even if the -C option is used, I would still want it to be something 
>extra to remove config files.  As stated before, I sometimes emerge -C
>a package then emerge it again.  I still want the config files to be
>left alone tho.  I have also had to do this before for *B*lockers
>where portage couldn't do it itself for whatever reason.

See my follow-up to Volker Armin Hemman on this.

>I would think this would be a idea on this.  Do a emerge -C to get the 
>regular way and a emerge -CC to remove everything literally, including 
>config files.

I don't think that conforms to getopt() processing of the command line
options.  The single hyphen options normally have only a single letter.
But I suppose it could be treated as -C specified twice, which would be
equally mnemonic.
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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