Dale schrieb:
Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
Thanks!
I wonder when there will be one single tool which is capable to take
care of a configuration and cleaning /etc/portage/ or is there already
one i miss?
Regards,
Daniel
I wouldn't mind having one that cleans out /etc as a whole. I'm sure
there are some old configs in there that are no longer needed. You
know, package is long gone but configs are still laying around.
Dale
:-) :-)
I am not a programmer, but I managed to get a bit familiar with perl. So
I wrote myself a small cruft-script in which takes care of obsolete
files. It searches for all files on the disk instead those which are on
a ignorelist. This list is compared with all files managed by portage.
Everything which is left is not needed anymore. I do not share this
script as you have to be extremely careful which files you delete. If
you remove files which are false positives, it can break the whole system!
What I want is one tool which does not only manage /etc/portage. It
should also take care of the world file, as there are often many
unneeded entries which are already dependencies of another package.
Also it should be capable of cleaning out unneeded binary packages and
distfiles. It removes unneeded slots or packages. It takes care of
linkage when there are abi changes.
This is all doable until now but I have about six different tools which
do their job more or less reliable to achieve all this.
I know this are high pretensions, but such a tool would be very powerful!
Regards,
Daniel
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