> On 12/5/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I 'emerge sync' and 'emerge -DuN world' daily so why did 'emerge -e > > system' and 'emerge -e world' (for the GCC upgrade) each come up with > > a bunch of etc files to be updated via etc-update? > > > > - Grant > > Because emerge -e re-installs every package on your system it also > wants to re-install the config files. If you are fairly confident that > you don't need these changes (as most of them will want to revert your > config file back to the original) you can run etc-update letting it > merge trivial changes and then tell it to keep all the files as is, > discarding the updates. > > -Mike
Alright, thanks Mike. - Grant -- [email protected] mailing list
