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

[Dave Reisner]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 05:39:46PM -0400, Eric Bélanger wrote:
> 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.
> 

It's mostly just a bad joke[1]. I'll throw out the following
alternatives:

* slimcache
* paccache-clean (more "standard", but too long imo)
* cachetrim
* pacuum

NB: We've already got the following packages in the AUR, which I'd like
to try and avoid stepping on:

* cacheclean
* pacleaner
* pkgcacheclean
* clearcache

(there may be some that i missed)

Any feedback on functionality? Anyone manage to break it?

d

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cash_Money_Records