On (26/01/09 09:35) Grant wrote: > >> 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 > Hi Grant,
Check 'man qfile' - there're examples for finding cruft files. HTH. Rumen
