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I've been messing around with some packages (installing and uninstalling).
Perhaps I'm a bit obsessive , but I would like to get a pristine system again (without reinstalling). I have removed all stale "*.orig", configuration and temporary files. Now, in order to complete my system cleaning, I'm thinking of removing /var/log/removed_{packages,scripts} too.
Is that a good idea? Can I do it? Which are the implications?
Any other recommendations?
Thank you.
Last edited by El Nigromante; 08-26-2008 at 02:39 PM.
I'm thinking of removing /var/log/removed_{packages,scripts} too.
Removing those files will cause no adverse effects as far as I know. However, you do not want to remove files from /var/log/packages, which is an archive of packages currently installed. Lose that directory of files and pkgtools will display nothing and you'll have problems knowing what is installed.
I've been messing around with some packages (installing and uninstalling).
Perhaps I'm a bit maniatic , but I would like to get a pristine system again (without reinstalling). I have removed all stale "*.orig", configuration and temporary files. Now, in order to complete my system cleaning, I'm thinking of removing /var/log/removed_{packages,scripts} too.
Is that a good idea? Can I do it? Which are the implications?
Remove all the packages that don't belong to a standard Slackware installation (packages that are not in the official package set). With this option, you can clean up your system, removing third-party packages as well as those packages that were removed from the official Slackware package set.
If you have some third party packages that you would like to keep, you can temporarily add them to the list of blacklisted packages before you run the "clean-system" command.
Last edited by Cuetzpallin; 08-26-2008 at 02:27 PM.
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, but I would like to get a pristine system again (without reinstalling). I have removed all stale "*.orig", configuration and temporary files. Now, in order to complete my system cleaning, I'm thinking of removing /var/log/removed_{packages,scripts} too. 
