when portage updated a few packages of mine, it placed several ._cfg* files in /etc. In this case, at least one of these cfg updates made no changes _except_ to destroy my config changes. For example, the ._cfg0000_group file that I just received didn't change anything over the last update, except that it would have removed the groups that I have added by hand (or that other apps have added) and it would have removed me from the groups my username is in. Why include such a cfg update? Reproducible: Sometimes Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge <something> 2. etc-update 3. compare interactively and see what I mean Expected Results: the .cfg files that I'm talking about shouldn't exist.
I've experienced this quite a bit, too. Found out the hard way that this effectivly reverts /etc/fstab to the way it was before i had editted it for Gentoo (ie, /dev/ROOT, /dev/BOOT). etc-update can be a very dangerous tool to use blindly!
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 7248 ***
