On Tuesday 02 July 2013 22:06:17 Yaro Yaro wrote: > 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
> Package managers don't track .dotfiles. Those are created at runtime by > your software. He knows that. He wants ot know how to identify which ones are no longer needed. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201307022214.18617.lisi.re...@gmail.com
