Bug 346203

Summary:	A 'purge' option for Portage
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	dE <de.techno>
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	bug, jlec
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
See Also:	https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291589
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

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

Steps to Reproduce:

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.