On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 1:18 PM, Angelo Arrifano <mik...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Hello developers developers and developers, > > Ever wondered how much crap is left in your X-years old Gentoo box? > > I just developed a python utility to efficiently find orphaned files in > the system. By orphaned files I mean the files that are present on > system directories and don't belong to any installed package. > > The package builds a virtual filesystem (cache) on the RAM using python > hash tables. Then it uses the cache to find the ownership of files > inside user-specified dirs. > > Building the cache takes less than 10 seconds here in a system with 1366 > installed packages. > > This is not intended to be a finished program yet, I'm looking forward > for your constructive commentaries.
i have refactored findcruft (search the forums) two years ago (see http://git.xnull.de/cgit/findcruft2/), maybe you can take a look at it, especially the false-positives handling. HTH, Bene
