Re: [gentoo-user] Installing outside of Portage & cruft removal

[Grant]

>> What do you guys think of this?  Do you know of a good cruft removal script?
>
> Yep, there's quite good one in gentoo itself.
>
> Basically, you'll need to write a short config for it, consisting of
> lines like "cruft name", "cruft src uri" and a few more lines if you'll
> need to pass some extra parameters to configure/make/install.
> It'll build the package in a sandbox, then transfer it to destination,
> memorizing every change it did and preventing collisions and config
> overwrites.
>
> Just put that config script into an ebuild file and use portage to
> build it - as simple as it gets ;)

I suppose you and Jesus are right, but what about cruft removal?  Are
you saying Gentoo is 100% cruft-free?  I've got a lot of junk in /etc
and especially ~/.*

- Grant