George Prowse wrote:
yes but if you extracted a stage on to an already built system you would not only have the the mess there that you wanted to get rid of but also all your config files would revert back to older versions and you'd lose any changes made.
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because i'd rather not use depclean but also depclean doesn't get rid of the configs left by any packages, for instance: if i had xfce on my system before and i did emerge -C xorg-x11 && emerge depclean xfce would be wiped off but if i emerged xfce again there would still be modified parts that would use the options i selected on the previous version.
It really sounds like you're contradicting yourself here. You don't want your config files overwritten, but you don't want your config files used when you remerge the packages?
Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
