>> What do you guys think of this? Do you know of a good cruft removal script? > > Yep, there's quite good one in gentoo itself. > > Basically, you'll need to write a short config for it, consisting of > lines like "cruft name", "cruft src uri" and a few more lines if you'll > need to pass some extra parameters to configure/make/install. > It'll build the package in a sandbox, then transfer it to destination, > memorizing every change it did and preventing collisions and config > overwrites. > > Just put that config script into an ebuild file and use portage to > build it - as simple as it gets ;)
I suppose you and Jesus are right, but what about cruft removal? Are you saying Gentoo is 100% cruft-free? I've got a lot of junk in /etc and especially ~/.* - Grant
