Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file

[Dale]

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

:-)  :-)