From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LRVnR-0001UH-LB for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:02:53 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5CBAAE04CE; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:01:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from qrypto.org (unknown [78.130.142.84]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3323E04CE for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 26748 invoked from network); 26 Jan 2009 19:59:14 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (rumen@87.120.40.254) by 78-130-142-84-cnc.pc-link.net with ESMTPA; 26 Jan 2009 19:59:14 -0000 Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:02:31 +0200 From: Rumen Yotov To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal Message-ID: <20090126180231.GA14170@qrypto.org> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <49bf44f10901260841w61b08bb5q6d7519dee4cc758e@mail.gmail.com> <20090126214856.577a7fc6@coercion> <49bf44f10901260935y7e46b94te283d854a89269a5@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10901260935y7e46b94te283d854a89269a5@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Archives-Salt: 0fceb272-9703-4c51-9c51-0e841327e104 X-Archives-Hash: 4279ec2fa9794c31c9a8bed477ae8c45 On (26/01/09 09:35) Grant wrote: > >> What do you guys think of this? Do you know of a good cruft removal script? > > > > Yep, there's quite good one in gentoo itself. > > > > Basically, you'll need to write a short config for it, consisting of > > lines like "cruft name", "cruft src uri" and a few more lines if you'll > > need to pass some extra parameters to configure/make/install. > > It'll build the package in a sandbox, then transfer it to destination, > > memorizing every change it did and preventing collisions and config > > overwrites. > > > > Just put that config script into an ebuild file and use portage to > > build it - as simple as it gets ;) > > I suppose you and Jesus are right, but what about cruft removal? Are > you saying Gentoo is 100% cruft-free? I've got a lot of junk in /etc > and especially ~/.* > > - Grant > Hi Grant, Check 'man qfile' - there're examples for finding cruft files. HTH. Rumen