On Aug 15, 2022, at 12:56, home user <mattisonw(a)comcast.net> wrote:
definition of "cruft", " crud", "junk", etc......
years-old whatever no longer being used,
collecting dust,
taking up space,
getting in the way,
until finally being trashed.
Then, 6 days later, you need it and wish you still had it!
It’s not just the files that can be old. It could be the filesystems and other
infrastructure.
For example, I had a rather old installation that I had been upgrading for many years, and
it used LVM. Every time I booted it complained that it was using older, unsupported LVM
metadata (although it still worked).
I wanted to switch to btrfs so it was a good excuse to reinstall from scratch.
I had long since switched to postfix anyway. I had /etc in etckeeper git and it was
trivial to clone before reinstall.
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Jonathan Billings