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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev]  /etc/udev/rules.d nightmare - orphaned files in
From:       Zac Medico <zmedico () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2006-11-26 10:48:58
Message-ID: 4569711A.80106 () gentoo ! org
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Daniel Drake wrote:
> Sven Köhler wrote:
>> Have you ever thought about sollutions of that problem? It's not a real
>> problem, that these files are orphaned - but they are neither removed
>> nor renamed, so they stay in place and in one or the other way, they may
>> start to disturb.
>
> Wasn't portage modified to remove unmodified config-protected files on
> unmerge a while back?

It's not quite as simple as it sounds, due to interactions between
merge and unmerge phases.

>
> If not, is this a sensible suggestion?
>
> Daniel
>

Yes, it's quite sensible.  It's fixed in svn now and I'll release it
as soon as it's had enough testing.  Watch bug 8423 for progress...

Zac
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