On Sunday 26 August 2007, Noud Aldenhoven wrote: > Hello, > > I have gentoo running on this laptop for over a year now and I'm quite > happy with it. But I have the feeling I emerged to many programs, made > to many logs, have sources everywere... to sum it up: it's a small > mess. > I'd really like to clean things up, order most of the files and remove > packages which aren't important anymore. > > But what would be the best stategy to do this? Of course, I could > start somewhere and work down and down and down... until I have > deleted most unused packages, removed all sources and ordered the > rest. But is there a good strategy I could stick to? Or perhaps a > guildline how to order my pc?
There are some scripts around for cleaning up cruft in portage. There will be some rubbish left behind in /tmp, and perhaps in /usr/src, /lib/modules, which you can sort out manually. There will also be any old versions of configuration files you may have saved in /etc and /home/<user>. This self-cleaning could take time and still miss the odd fie. If you want to clean out absolutely everything then an idea might be to reinstall afresh after you back up your /etc and /home directories and then copy over only those configuration files that you need to restore your system to its current set up. HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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