Edward Catmur wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 16:25 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> 
>>Is this a feature or a bug? It seems that emerge -C will not remove any
>>altered files from /etc/ once it has been changed.
>>
>>This really leaves some cruft in my /etc/ Is this due to config-protect
>>or is it something else??
> 
> 
> No, portage will not remove any files that have been changed (actually,
> had their mtime altered) wherever on the filesystem they reside.
> 
> This is a feature.
> 
Files in /etc are never removed from portage, to force portage remove
files under etc you can use :
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/init.d"


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