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Bug 346203 - A 'purge' option for Portage
Summary: A 'purge' option for Portage
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Enhancement/Feature Requests (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2010-11-20 17:52 UTC by dE
Modified: 2022-03-16 01:09 UTC (History)
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Description dE 2010-11-20 17:52:13 UTC
The Debian package management system has the ability to keep a track of packages that where removed, but not with the config (i.e they were not purged). You can remove the configs by 'aptitude purge ~c'. Portage should have the same equivalent feature.

Reproducible: Always

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Comment 1 dE 2010-11-20 17:52:56 UTC
Also does portage have a purge option at all?.. I mean temporarily removing /etc from CONFIG_PROTECT?
Comment 2 Zac Medico gentoo-dev 2010-11-20 18:24:57 UTC
In the calling environment can export CONFIG_PROTECT="-*" or CONFIG_PROTECT="-/etc" or whatnot.
Comment 3 dE 2010-11-20 18:38:04 UTC
That appears inconvenient, I think a purge option should be there.