On 30/09/13 10:53, Jeremy Heiner wrote: > Hi, Allan, > > You correctly surmised the purpose of the script. Sorry for not being > more explicit about that. I agree that a package manager bears no > responsibility for files it does not track. But I also think it is > very helpful to be able to easily tell exactly which files are being > dealt with by the package manager and which files got onto the system > by other means. And the package manager is the only thing that is able > to provide that information. > > What I'm thinking of is an enhanced "-Qkk". It would provide the same > info (in a more compact form) for managed files, but it would also let > you know about any unmanaged files it finds within the directories it > is responsible for. Does that make a little more sense? >
Can you give some example output so that we can understand what "enhanced -Qkk" means. Also, look at "pacman -Qo /home" and note it is tracked in Arch Linux. There are a lot of unmanaged files in that directory... How will that be managed? Allan
