Re: [gentoo-dev] Creating a Sketeton System

[George Prowse]

No, only the config files that are in a stage 3 should be left, some of those will be edited and some will have been upgraded so they should be left. It would be like emerge --unmerge --shallow world to take you back the that original state so then any major changes could be made without reinstalling as you would basically have an upgraded stage 3 after some unmerging

On 12/12/05, Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

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.

...

> 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
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