Re: Dotfiles
On Tuesday 02 July 2013 22:06:17 Yaro Yaro wrote:
> On Jul 2, 2013 3:49 PM, "Hendrik Boom" <hendrik@topoi.pooq.com> wrote:
> > There are lots of .dotfiles cluttering my home directory.
> >
> > No doubt some of them are useful.
> >
> > Many, though, are probably remnants of packages of years past -- packages
> > I installed long ago, no longer need, and have removed.
> >
> > Is there any way of identifying which packages are using which dotfiles?
> >
> > And which ones are obsolete -- the user equivalent of configuration
> > files, which are properly tracked by the package manager?
> >
> > Should there be?
> >
> > -- hendrik
> Package managers don't track .dotfiles. Those are created at runtime by
> your software.
He knows that. He wants ot know how to identify which ones are no longer
needed.
Lisi
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