On 30/09/13 10:53, Jeremy Heiner wrote:
Hi, Allan,
You correctly surmised the purpose of the script. Sorry for not being more explicit about that. I agree that a package manager bears no responsibility for files it does not track. But I also think it is very helpful to be able to easily tell exactly which files are being dealt with by the package manager and which files got onto the system by other means. And the package manager is the only thing that is able to provide that information.
What I'm thinking of is an enhanced "-Qkk". It would provide the same info (in a more compact form) for managed files, but it would also let you know about any unmanaged files it finds within the directories it is responsible for. Does that make a little more sense?
Can you give some example output so that we can understand what "enhanced -Qkk" means. Also, look at "pacman -Qo /home" and note it is tracked in Arch Linux. There are a lot of unmanaged files in that directory... How will that be managed? Allan