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Re: Program to find files which are not part of packages.



On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 10:15:23AM +0000, Gordon Russell wrote:
> 
> OK, a lot of people wanted the program to find files which do not belong
> to packages currently installed in the system... so I have included it
> as an attachment. If it turns into something useful, I will release it as
> a Debian package, but just now I see it as more as a producer of interesting
> results. Please do not feed the output directly into "rm"! For instance,
> /etc/passwd is not owned by any package. Deleting this might be considered
> bad!
> 
> Please feel free to make changes to the code. If they are good, mail me them
> back and I will add them into the program. It is in c++, and as it is so small
> I have also included the executable...

Have you looked at the package cruft?

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Show me the code or get out of my way.

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