On Thu, 02 Jun 2011 19:00:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:
>On Thu, 2 Jun 2011 17:26:44 +0100, David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> Now, nearly everybody modifies /etc/updatedb.conf. This does not >> remove that name from mlocate's manifest. So, Portage knows >> precisely to which package the file belongs. Hence I think your >> assertion of "I don't know what this is," is specious. > >You have picked an excellent example, because mlocate is not the >package that owns or has owned /etc/updatedb.conf, slocate does too. Wrong. One can (well, could) only have one of slocate and mlocate installed at any given time. Whichever one is installed owns /etc/updatedb.conf, unless both have been unmerged and the file is a remnant, but it cannot be owned by both. Moreover, slocate has been deleted from the main Portage tree, so it doesn't own anything any more. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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