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

[Grant <emailgrant@gmail.com>]

>>>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>
[snip]
> You have to clean out /etc and home directories yourself.

Exactly.  Nothing to help me along?  I'll check out qfile, but I'm
surprised there isn't a good script for this.

I'm the only one interested in a filesystem audit?

- Grant


> 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