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 1LRViV-0000wX-PX for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:57:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2020CE0041; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:57:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.241]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF113E0041 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:57:44 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c2so1247701anc.1 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:57:44 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=ChAi9kobOX58L6wTdIv9RFZ2aQFIpKmj02tH1lglJ0Q=; b=NQtUSVTIpLQPXfDgBa1UHOILzfPeC1MqgHTKKbdH8WoRWomszXULqdoQmqlHhnLshX EBVUMAzSMWN6xV2Z4YwNGAWsHq4OehRrOCdV7+qOpxyWxBEO7Kyth7g3hyPThygBB8zw Gj/hwLMSO6fpSE16ZqgM6u6gb384oGnyRRxLM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=qq2CHXsQ4w7myrGsc0nYyuN70p+QeRnOgbV3S7TNqrNK8Mm3NMHRqNizrsjtvMG+bu gAN+qDAMBRc0XMIrJliTOeNki5gzPUkbP6VeWBUEKCH24vm0cPodUdYff9Dt5f3idBBn CJXIcnvxfiXdPZQ8LSn7ahIVJyDCXqMdjeR4E= Received: by 10.100.232.10 with SMTP id e10mr3363495anh.36.1232992664611; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:57:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?4.231.91.236? (dialup-4.231.91.236.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.91.236]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm3613245ywc.19.2009.01.26.09.57.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:57:44 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <497DF993.9090905@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:57:39 -0600 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.19) Gecko/20081227 SeaMonkey/1.1.14 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal References: <49bf44f10901260841w61b08bb5q6d7519dee4cc758e@mail.gmail.com> <20090126214856.577a7fc6@coercion> <49bf44f10901260935y7e46b94te283d854a89269a5@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10901260935y7e46b94te283d854a89269a5@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 88480044-5f3d-46a8-80da-2b455deff8a0 X-Archives-Hash: 9a3a39c7f7f2056f26ce069f28db3600 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 > > > Portage doesn't remove files from /etc and should never touch any home directory. As far as I know, portage never puts anything in a home directory either. You have to clean out /etc and home directories yourself. Portage does do a good job of removing all the other files tho. If it puts it there, it will remove it if you unmerge a package. Dale :-) :-)