Best Cruft Script?

Xgates · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 82

Whats the best Cruft script out there? I have used findcruft-1.0.4, and Ed Catmur's script and so far Ed Catmur's script ran much better with alot less false reports.

Xgates · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 82

114 views and couting and not one answer, no one knows?

whitesouls · Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2005 6:03 pm Post subject:

guess you could use the "Quick Search" field up there to ease up your work...
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Redeeman · l33t Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Posts: 958 Location: Portugal

basically, the first one, is outdated, findcruft is best i would say, but it needs to be configured, thats all, just as the original does

Xgates · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 82

findcruft isn't all that good, there is to much crap invloved with it, the Gentoo team needs to seriously get on this and develop something.

StringCheesian · l33t Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Posts: 887

There's this:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-337074.html

And you can try app-admin/localepurge

Xgates · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 27 Jun 2005 Posts: 82

In the sense of Cruft with files, and directories left over in the system thats not a Cruft script, that's just a script to clean up the temporay direcs, and people using Gentoo should know how to do this by hand. It's great to see people making things like this, I mean it might speed up the process a little, but running a few commands by hand as:

rm -rf /usr/portage/distfiles/* is not that slow either :-)

localpurge isn't the thing either, so far it seems as though Ed Catmur's script is the best thing out there, but I'm not to sure if even it is 100% accurate, all I know is he's still around with a website, and I hope he'll continue with this script.