On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 6:43 PM, Anton Aylward <opensuse@antonaylward.com> wrote:
As people have poitned out, there is a lot of stuff that such a strategy would remove that you want kept.
A more sensible approach would be to use tools like
* Padraig Brady's 'fslint'
(Mind you, all that could be done with 'find', but that's another matter.)
FSLint will clean more crud out of your system than the minor dot-file detrius that LinuxIsOne talks of. BTDT.
But the package FSLint is not found in the Yast, even after I added the contrib repo.
The other problem is hanging dependencies. Yes, you removed a package, but you didn't remove the packages it depends on that nothing else depends on. You've left orphaned packages lying around!
There's an option for Zypper to do that :-)
Yes, it does, I guess the commands are: zypper rm --clean-deps ... zypper rm --clean-deps <package_name>
RPM can also tell you the config files used by the installed packages. You can then figure out the detrius ones that belonged to removed packages.
But have you purged /tmp and your various caches?
Yes. We can also use BleachBit (I guess).
All that being said, I think these are not very good ways to waste your time; you would be better of play PySol or KMines.
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