On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 08:10:07PM -0500, Drew Engelbrecht wrote: > I've noticed some abandoned configuration files have been left lying > around my harddrive, which by their existence have a (sometimes negative) > effect on my upgraded system. They were installed by packages in lenny, > but would not be installed in a fresh installation of squeeze. Despite > unmodified configuration files getting replaced by newer ones when > upgrading, it seems that if they don't belong to the same package in > squeeze as in lenny, then they are not removed... even though that file > may be unmodified from the original (and now useless or even harmful.)
You might take a look at cruft: Description: Find any cruft built up on your system cruft is a program to look over your system for anything that shouldn't be there, but is; or for anything that should be there, but isn't. . It bases most of its results on dpkg's database, as well as a list of `extra files' that can appear during the lifetime of various packages. . cruft is still in pre-release; your assistance in improving its accuracy and performance is appreciated. Homepage: http://alioth.debian.org/projects/cruft/
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