FS#9882 - display all files not covered by package management (orphans)

Attached to Project: Pacman
Opened by Thorsten Hirsch (thorstenhirsch) - Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 19:55 GMT
Last edited by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Monday, 24 March 2008, 04:34 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category General
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 3.1.3
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 2
Private No

Details

I like this feature of emerge very much. It makes you think you have a clean system. Please implement it also into pacman: a new query, that lists all files of your system not owned by any package. You might want to implement some smart filters, so that runtime-files (in /proc, /sys, /dev) are not being displayed. And an option to skip /home is also useful, because it's pretty clear, that none of the files in /home are covered by package management.
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Closed by  Dan McGee (toofishes)
Monday, 24 March 2008, 04:34 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't implement
Additional comments about closing:  See comments
Comment by Dan McGee (toofishes) - Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 20:31 GMT
Nope, probably not happening. Why? Because scripts can do this.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=43548
Comment by Xavier (shining) - Wednesday, 19 March 2008, 21:56 GMT
Anyone is free to develop a script based on the idea from that forum thread.
I think it could even be included in pacman git repo with the other scripts in contrib/, and then included in the community pacman-contrib package.

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