David W Noon wrote:
You have just touched on an annoyance of unmerge, in that it does not clean up configuration files that have been modified. It removes files that are still in the same state as when the package was emerged, but not those modified by the user. I don't see how user changes make the file more important than would be in its vanilla state. Perhaps an option to remove (by an unmerge, not etc-update or the like) these genuinely orphaned files could be set in /etc/make.conf.
There are times that if portage removed a config file, I would not be happy. Sometimes I unmerge a package then remerge but want to keep the config files.
Would I like there to be the option, yep, I sure would. There are also times when I want to get rid of a package and all its config files. The option would be nice but it should be a option.
Dale :-) :-)
