retitle 383364 An option to ignore some cruft. thanks On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:40:30PM -0500, Sukant Hajra wrote: > I agree that on an ideal system there > shouldn't be any broken symlinks, but in Debian, that's just not the > absolute case.
I think everyone will agree, that providing a symlink without its target simply does not make sense, so it's a bug, and should be fixed. [...] > What I'd like is for some way to specify broken_symlinks I'm okay with. More generally, this is a request for an option in cruft to shut up about cruft over which the local administrator has no control (i.e. cruft being result of package bugs). Therefore I think that it is not a good idea to provide a directory for each such category of cruft (broken symlinks is just one, currently implemented scheme, there might be more in the future), which would bring more complication into cruft internals. Instead, cruft should provide a facility to simply omit given paths (whether they are broken links, missing files or files which shouldn't be there, or something completly else) from its output right before displaying/mailing it to the user. We could then use such facility at distribution release time, to make cruft shut up about all such known bugs in the particular release (which won't get fixed over the following N months anyway). Since it would have to be fairly flexible, I think it should be scriptable in explain-script style. Marcin -- Marcin Owsiany <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://marcin.owsiany.pl/ GnuPG: 1024D/60F41216 FE67 DA2D 0ACA FC5E 3F75 D6F6 3A0D 8AA0 60F4 1216 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
