On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:48 AM, 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? > Well, besides the ones you can tell by name, you mean? Heh. > And which ones are obsolete -- the user equivalent of configuration > files, which are properly tracked by the package manager? > The violence option? As in, mv all the .files to a backup directory and see which ones get re-created in the course of your usual daily activities? (Then mv them back, one by one.) > Should there be? > Sounds like a feature request (or a chance for a DIY). -- Joel Rees
