Re: [gentoo-user] Replacement for gcruft: gcrud

[Andrew Udvare <audvare@gmail.com>]

> On 2018-08-16, at 14:22, james <garftd@verizon.net> wrote:
> 
> Yes, but, it'll be  while for me. Offer and automated clean up option,
> and I have dozens of systems to test.....

I'll figure out the kind of tests I want to run sometime soon.
> 
> 
> GLEP 64 was on the path to systematically solve what you you are doing
> after the fact::
> 
> https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/GLEP:64
> 
> More refs for your convenience
> 
> http://asic-linux.com.mx/~izto/checkinstall/
> 
> http://gittup.org/tup/
> ("It will automatically clean-up old files.")

Thanks for pointing these out.

It is really tempting to support macOS like tup does, although SIP and the restored snapshot on boot kind of makes it unnecessary. And also the idea of using a newly created FS to see changes is interesting.

A new GLEP to systematically delete extraneous files could be to restore a non-user generated snapshot on boot just like iOS/macOS, but the problem is that we don't always use the same filesystem or mount configurations. Another way would be to use xattr but again the issue is compatibility.

-- 
Andrew