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

[Grant]

> I think if you enable auditing in the kernel and emerge
> sys-process/audit you can see the access history of any file on your
> system. (doesn't help after the fact, but going forward...) At least
> then you could see which user/program did things to which files. I
> think even if a file is missing that you think should have been there
> you can do an audit search and see who deleted it. I've never tried it
> myself but that's how I understand it. I could be wrong.

That could be really handy if you could find out when was the last
time a file was accessed.  If you weren't sure that a file is cruft or
not, you could examine that last access date.

> And it's not what you asked for, but for cleaning cruft out of
> distfiles i use eclean from app-portage/gentoolkit... works great.
> Whenever I'm running low on space I run it and it zaps a few gigs of
> unneeded stuff without deleting the distfiles of active packages.

Yeah, eclean is great.

- Grant