Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC][NEW] Utility to find orphaned files

[Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>]

* Daniel Pielmeier <billie@gentoo.org> schrieb:

> What about searching the complete file system but using an exclude file where
> you can put directories and files which should not be searched. It is tedious to
> tell every path on the command-line. Also for instance if you specify /lib it
> will also search under /lib/modules and I am sure you do not consider all
> contents there as unneeded.

hmm, perhaps there's some way to assign these files to some package ?
 
> You also need to consider that your tool will return other false positives like
> byte compiled python modules and perl header files. In general everything an
> ebuild does in phases where it adds files to file-system but files are not
> stored to CONTENTS (pkg_{pre,post}inst). At this point the files are needed but
> not recognized by the package manager. If the ebuild does not take care of this
> files when removing (pkg_{pre,post}rm) the package they will remain on the
> file-system and are now unneeded.

Assuming these files are not optional/temporary (aka: can be regenerated on
the fly), I see a generic design problem here: everything belonging to some
package (excluding content data and configs, of course) should be assigned
to the package.

The big Q: how can we achieve this ?


cu
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