On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 10:41 +0100, 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.
> 

Which is what I would expect. But it doesn't seem to the case for me. 

I installed synergy and then removed it but the conf file was still
around.

Maybe there's something I'm not doing??

> This is a feature.
> 

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