Re: Dotfiles

[Joel Rees <joel.rees@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:48 AM, 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?

Well, besides the ones you can tell by name, you mean?

Heh.

 

And which ones are obsolete -- the user equivalent of configuration
files, which are properly tracked by the package manager?

The violence option? As in, mv all the .files to a backup directory and see which ones get re-created in the course of your usual daily activities? (Then mv them back, one by one.)

 

Should there be?

Sounds like a feature request (or a chance for a DIY).

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Joel Rees