Alan McKinnon wrote:
On Friday 15 August 2008 14:36:58 Dale wrote:

Somewhat still on the same subject since I am still cleaning.  Anyway to
clean out unneeded files in /etc?  I'm thinking about files that may be
there but the programs are no longer installed.  I read the man page for
dep but didn't see anything.  Dang thing does a lot tho.

You could use the very long way round, something based on this:

find /etc/ -type f -exec equery belongs {} \;

then leave it alone for an hour or three


Hmmmm, I had to stop that after a few minutes. It sort of took away from my folding. Pushed my CPU to about 80% or so. There has to be a tool for this too. Gentoo has about everything else. :/
Dale

:-) :-)

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