Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

[Mike Kazantsev <mike_kazantsev@fraggod.net>]

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On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:35:13 -0800
Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 ~/.*

Oh, that's not a bug, it's a feature (C) some_unknown_company

AFAIK portage won't remove any changed (by hand) files in
CONFIG_PROTECT paths, and I've certainly can't remember a package,
which installs anything into ~.
Of course, if you'll launch installed app it'll create some config,
temp files, etc, but that'll only affect the paths to which it has
access, and that's probably only your ~ and /tmp.

And as soon as portage will start to "clean up" your home from
app-created files like, say, some documents you've spent weeks working
on, it'll certainly make it to the top-10 evil linux viruses out there.


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Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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