* David W Noon <dwn...@ntlworld.com> [110601 14:41]: > On Wed, 01 Jun 2011 20:20:02 +0200, Todd Goodman wrote about Re: > [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files: > > >What you seem to ignore or miss in the discussion is that an > >emerge -C is necessary at times during an upgrade and rebuild when > >package dependencies are not perfect. > > See my follow-up to Volker Armin Hemmann on this. > -- > Regards, > > Dave [RLU #314465] > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
It's not a rare situation as you imply in that followup and copying off/backing up and then restoring is a lot of busywork and fraught with risk when the current situation works just fine, thank you very much. If the current situation is unacceptable to you, why not create a patch and work to get it approved? Please make it optional with the default being the existing behavior. Todd
