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[Brandon Allbery]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2015 at 7:24 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Something related came up in another discussion I had today, which raised
> the question how hard it would be to write a walker that 1) identifies
> stray and/or trespassing files


Config files are not part of a port/package, because if they were then any
(often necessary) customization would be overwritten on port upgrade.
(Binary package managers often handle this by flagging them for special
handling... and still get it wrong often enough that I usually check
manually after upgrades.) Likewise things like databases (whether things
like mysql/mariadb/postgresql or support databases like scrollkeeper), the
DocumentRoot of web servers, etc. In short, this isn't even remotely
trivial.

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