On Mon, 30 May 2011 18:10:02 +0200, Neil Bothwick wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning redundant configuration files:
>On Mon, 30 May 2011 15:48:15 +0100, David W Noon wrote: > >> How does the tool of choice determine if a file is redundant or not? >> >> Just because a configuration file is not associated with a Portage >> package [any more] does not necessarily mean it is redundant. > >No, but it indicates the file warrants a closer look as it may be >orphaned. qfile is my tool of choice for this, it only list files and >deletes nothing. Indeed, I would be very wary of any tool that automatically deleted a configuration file without backing it up. The only algorithmic approach with which I would feel comfortable would be if the file were checked against the previous contents of a package and found present, but has disappeared from the new contents of that same package. Even then, I would want manual confirmation. -- Regards, Dave [RLU #314465] *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* dwn...@ntlworld.com (David W Noon) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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