On Thursday 28 April 2005 11:55, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:41 +0100, Edward Catmur wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 16:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > Is this a feature or a bug? It seems that emerge -C will not remove any > > > altered files from /etc/ once it has been changed. > > > > > > This really leaves some cruft in my /etc/ Is this due to config-protect > > > or is it something else?? > > > > No, portage will not remove any files that have been changed (actually, > > had their mtime altered) wherever on the filesystem they reside. > > Which is what I would expect. But it doesn't seem to the case for me. > > I installed synergy and then removed it but the conf file was still > around. > > Maybe there's something I'm not doing?? > > > This is a feature. >
from "emerge --help config": In addition to protecting overwritten files, Portage will not delete any files from a protected directory when a package is unmerged. While this may be a little bit untidy, it does prevent potentially valuable config files from being deleted, which is of paramount importance. -- ________________________________________________________________ Hans-Gunther Borrmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg Hermann-Herder-Str. 10, D79104 FREIBURG Tel.: +49 761/203-4652 Fax: +49 761/203-4643 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
