Re: [gentoo-user] A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-17 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:24:37 +1300, Tom Eastman wrote: One idea I've had is to delete almost every entry in my 'world' file, and then do an 'emerge depclean'. That would be pretty cool, empty out a huge amount of stuff, and then start re-installing at my leisure. That sounds like a lot of

[gentoo-user] A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-16 Thread Tom Eastman
Hey all, Sorry about any imagery conjured up by the subject line... I've been running the same gentoo system on my computer for several years now... keeping it relativey updated, but over time there's always cruft that builds up, stuff that gets left behind during upgrades, or re-installs.

Re: [gentoo-user] A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-16 Thread Steven Ringwald
Tom Eastman wrote: Hey all, Sorry about any imagery conjured up by the subject line... I've been running the same gentoo system on my computer for several years now... keeping it relativey updated, but over time there's always cruft that builds up, stuff that gets left behind during upgrades,

Re: [gentoo-user] A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-16 Thread Willie Wong
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 06:24:37PM +1300, Penguin Lover Tom Eastman squawked: Is there a tool that will allow me to find *all* files that aren't owned by any package, so that I can then decide what to do with them? Obviously skipping directories such as /home/. Then I can delete everything

Re: [gentoo-user] A Gentoo Enema

2005-12-16 Thread Richard Fish
On 12/16/05, Tom Eastman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a tool that will allow me to find *all* files that aren't owned by any package, so that I can then decide what to do with them? It should be fairly simple to generate such a list. You can generate a list of all regular files that are