Bug 42027 – emerge unmerge should remove configuration files as well

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 8423
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Florian Effenberger 2004-02-18 06:09:31 UTC]

emerge unmerge should remove configuration files as well, because you have a lot unnecessary of them flying around when you have uninstalled some packages

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge unmerge PACKAGE
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Configuration files, e.g. /etc/conf.d/gpm are lying around

Expected Results:  
They should be removed

[Comment 1 Ciaran McCreesh 2004-02-18 06:13:04 UTC]

emerge --help config

[Comment 2 Florian Effenberger 2004-02-18 06:23:37 UTC]

After reading it, I still miss a feature on the command line, e.g.

emerge unmerge --removeconfig mypacke

Manually editing the make.conf before and resetting it to the previous setting after emerge unmerge is a little bit annoying...

[Comment 3 Gregorio Guidi (RETIRED) 2004-03-18 07:13:03 UTC]

Could be marked as dup of bug #43066 ?

[Comment 4 Jason Stubbs (RETIRED) 2005-07-28 07:25:04 UTC]

Putting a hold on feature requests for portage as they are drowning out the 
bugs. Most of these features should be available in the next major version of 
portage. But for the time being, they are just drowning out the major bugs and 
delaying the next version's progress. 
 
Any bugs that contain patches and any bugs for etc-update or dispatch-conf can 
be reopened. Sorry, I'm just not good enough with bugzilla. ;) 

[Comment 5 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2007-01-11 12:59:34 UTC]

Reopening for duping

[Comment 6 Marius Mauch (RETIRED) 2007-01-11 13:00:01 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8423 ***