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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file
Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:55:53
Message-Id: 200808151454.49522.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file by Dale
1 On Friday 15 August 2008 14:36:58 Dale wrote:
2
3 > Somewhat still on the same subject since I am still cleaning. Anyway to
4 > clean out unneeded files in /etc? I'm thinking about files that may be
5 > there but the programs are no longer installed. I read the man page for
6 > dep but didn't see anything. Dang thing does a lot tho.
7
8 You could use the very long way round, something based on this:
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10 find /etc/ -type f -exec equery belongs {} \;
11
12 then leave it alone for an hour or three
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15 --
16 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out my world file Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>