Ben Measures wrote:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/index.xml#doc_chap3
>
> Here's how I found it:
> http://www.gentoo.org/
> Select "Docs"
> Select "Gentoo System Documentation"

I've been there. It's fine, as far as it goes, but it does not
go far enough. It's incomplete, and, if I recall correctly,
"remote_metadata.pickle", and some other files, don't get a
mention. Google cannot find anything, and Google's memory is
far superior to mine.

I don't want to sound too harsh. I like Gentoo. If I didn't,
I wouldn't be using it. However, I'm not going to go around
praising every aspect of it.

>> I just don't
>> like the idea that the system is cluttered up with unused
>> files and directories. It's the ugliness of it that I don't
>> care for.
>
> Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

I wouldn't know. I'm not an apiarist.

> Perhaps with time you'll find that
> there isn't half as many "unused" files and directories as you thought.

"Aren't", Mr Measures, "aren't". Sheesh

How many of those hundred thousand files do you think I'd need
to maintain a reasonably compact system? If I need them all,
the situation's even worse than I thought...

Cheers,

R.