On 2021/12/01 02:05, Alexander wrote: > On 2021/11/30 8:14, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > On 2021-11-29, Amit Kulkarni <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 5:17 PM Alexander <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> Just to gauge what to expect from this and whether I did this wrong: > > >> After configuring /etc/sysclean.ignore I get 3382 files of which 3274 > > >> are in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/. Are numbers this large to be expected? > > > > > > 3382 files is too large. > > > > That seems about right for the removed font variants to me. You can't > > judge by the number of files, only the filenames. > > > > *If* you don't compile your own software from outside ports/packages, the > > files under /usr listed in sysclean's default output (no -a flag) is good. > > I do review manually before rm'ing but I have *never* had it suggesT > > removing something under /usr that is required. Files outside /usr > > need more care. > > > This is probably a stupid question but how do you review them manually? > I have a couple files that are manpages, that's easy. signify-keys, too. > There is some sgi stuff, also easy, retirement is known. > Same goes for switchd-related things. > But what about the rest? Assuming you don't just know everything about > those files already, do you find(1)/grep(1) through the source tree and > commit messages or is there a different way?
I just scan through the filenames quickly and see if I think they're likely to cause a problem. I'm doing that anyway for the files outside of /usr and I read source-changes so I know what to expect.
