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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 3:21 pm    Post subject: Is there a handy way to remove configuration files? Reply with quote

Hi,
I´m totally new to gentoo... Now I´m playing with portage and some packets to find out the system configuration which fits best to me.
Incidentally, thanks to those guys who wrote all these very good documentations.

So now I got the problem not to know how to purge configuration files of software I already unmerged. Except of manually delete them or by remerging them and run:
Code:
CONFIG_PROTECT="" emerge -C package

found at: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-489222-start-0.html

Now my question:
Is there any handy way to purge configuration files of packages which are not longer installed?

Thanks in advance for your replies.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 19, 2013 4:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

No, there isn't. At least not yet.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 07, 2014 2:21 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

a script specialist could probably write something that would query emerge for 'file install by a package' then run a loop with 'if exist, rm'

I can see the way, but would not be able to make a decent script for it

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