Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
I think that the ideal would be if portage could set some kind of 'marker' so that etc-update, dispatch-conf etc could prompt the user as to whether to keep or remove the orphaned file.
