Re: emerge ._* files

On Mon, 26 Aug 2002 16:50:58 -0700
"daniel" <[email protected]> wrote:

> you know how when you do an emerge world, you get all those ._* files
> in/etc/ and below?  well it just made 28 new ones on my machine and
> most of them are no different from what i already have (some are
> though and are simply copies of the original files before i edited
> them).
> 
> is there a way to scan the /etc/ directory and compare each ._* file
> to its couterpart and unless any differences exist, just delete the
> ._* file?
> 
Emerge gentoolkit and use etc-update. It does exactly what you are
looking for.
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