Package managers don't track .dotfiles. Those are created at runtime by
your software.
On Jul 2, 2013 3:49 PM, "Hendrik Boom" <hend...@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:

> There are lots of .dotfiles cluttering my home directory.
>
> No doubt some of them are useful.
>
> Many, though, are probably remnants of packages of years past -- packages
> I installed long ago, no longer need, and have removed.
>
> Is there any way of identifying which packages are using which dotfiles?
>
> And which ones are obsolete -- the user equivalent of configuration
> files, which are properly tracked by the package manager?
>
> Should there be?
>
> -- hendrik
>
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