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 1LRVMj-00076s-77 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:35:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8872BE049C; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:35:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fg-out-1718.google.com (fg-out-1718.google.com [72.14.220.158]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6A2E049C for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:35:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fg-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id e21so3726183fga.14 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:35:13 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=55Ft+TEZthULdFdP+zZya7HjgzmoIs1D7SsSE/lJYKY=; b=C1JIjOpJo+x10BJ/i9JRj2F1WZGZjCRDL83Bd82Rt3eAHmrg+2g/E9ZZRzydZOlKsJ hBKkD9PFb0a64SIXGkxXR6tDFyqOGnflDAzIqcWPmS99YTVKKkgXveWs/7QMEkjOHT5H UR4BhlmXEPuWMH8i3yK1De+NNXqdj/JBVy70s= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=f+CDu45DplBPFFw3v2H6ogVdHqpb+n2sZ6VD9l3EMQa/pII9Ld4XlBVyW/sDJZm+5J +hzsuSEB+vCzsZ77RCLIyLMIjkQgteDQXJCROTKsXYiUlIwhXjDoMVfaBwq1eGec/RtI d2G/MDvNQ97BXIfSRhv9W9mKh0eMlfy+A5LQ4= 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 Received: by 10.181.206.15 with SMTP id i15mr141760bkq.32.1232991313113; Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:35:13 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20090126214856.577a7fc6@coercion> References: <49bf44f10901260841w61b08bb5q6d7519dee4cc758e@mail.gmail.com> <20090126214856.577a7fc6@coercion> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:35:13 -0800 Message-ID: <49bf44f10901260935y7e46b94te283d854a89269a5@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal From: Grant To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 7e8e4523-a2e5-44a2-aee8-00b03f486f15 X-Archives-Hash: 43c7876292cf7b1a862a87015a56caf8 >> 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