[pacman-dev] [PATCH] cachemoney: add new contrib script

[Eric Bélanger]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 3:13 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> cachemoney is a robust and flexible package cache cleaner with a variety
> of options. Much credit goes to DJ Mills and Pat Brisbin for the ideas
> behind this script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Dave Reisner <dreisner at archlinux.org>
> ---
> This sort of functionality has been in a few feature requests, and there exist
> a number of tools that already provide this, but none flexible enough (or
> portable enough) to be to my liking. This is all bash3 compat with awk, tested
> on gawk 3.1.8, gawk 4.0.0, bwk (the one true), mawk, and busybox awk (which
> fscking _sucks_) to do the heavy lifting (rather than bash4). It ends up being
> insanely fast, with the drawback being that its dependent on the format of the
> filename to find and consider packages for deletion. In other words, a valid
> package tarball that isn't compliant with the extglob *.pkg.tar?(.+([^.]))
> isn't going to be considered.
>
> I'm a fan of the name, but I'm also happy to hear alternatives.
>

Without having tested it, that script might be something I will use
but I don't like the current name. I just don't understand the 'money'
part in it. A name like cachecleaner would be more intuitive.