Admit that the typical Debian machine has tons of cruft(8) $ man cruft cruft - Check the filesystem for cruft (missing and unexplained files)
Mainly I'm talking about those unexplained files. Even just # cruft -d / will probably produce tons of output on any system that has been under real use for more than a few weeks. Plenty of unknown students without hall passes wandering around the Debian High School. Mucho unregistered aliens camping under the Debian highway overpasses. I won't name names but one must admit that squeaky clean Debian systems are few in reality. The problem seems mainly those immigrant families (packages) that come to our shores (systems) and then create all those children (files) without registering them properly (so dlocate will know about them, but currently they must present a list of names upon arrival at our shores, and there is no way to update it dynamically later...) So what? Well, when one finds an old dog (file) that is causing some error, one sees if it has an owner (via dlocate), before shooting it (rm), and hoping it was mere bygone left behind, and not an important but unregistered file. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org