Cleanse is a script whos purpose is to clean up the smgl portion of your system. It takes the following arguments:

• --delint [full]

  • Finds and removes dependency entries for spells that have been removed (with full)

  • * This should be run occasionaly, but it does mean you'll be asked the same questions over again if you recast at a later date

  • Removes duplicate lines, including lines that are for the the same spell and dependency, but different on/off or options (prompted)

  • Also removed corrupted lines in the depends file

  • * [full] will delint dependencies that are off

• --prune [doit]

  • It ensures that your dependency tree is valid, no missing dependencies

  • Finds dependencies for spells that are installed, but have a dependency on an uninstalled spell

  • If 'doit' is specified it will cast and dispel after done asking questions. If doit is not specified, it will simply print out the cast and dispel commands.

• --packages

  • Finds corrupted lines in the packages file

  • Finds spells that are installed, but for which the spell is no longer in a grimoire

• --fix [spell ...]

  • aka cast --fix [spell ...]

  • Checks installed spells for errors

  • * Modified files

  • * Missing files/symlinks

  • * Missing needed library (happens when another spell changes lib versions on occasion)

  • Recasts a spell if there is a problem detected with it

• --nofix [spell ...]

  • aka cast --nofix [spell ...]

  • Same as cleanse --fix [spell ...] except it won't recast

• --nofix_quick [spell ...]

  • Same as --nofix, but does not check dependent spells

• --logs

  • Cleans out old logs in the same way a system-update does

• --sweep

  • aka gaze --prune

  • Cleans out old spool and cache files

As you can see it does quite a bit of checking. It is still fairly dumb though. It is missing several cases:

• Spell A used to depend on B. You cast A and B. Later, A no longer depends on B so it is removed from the spell's DEPENDS. Your depends file will still have the A depends on B line until you cast -r A.

• You have several spells that depend on service A (example X11-LIBS). You decide you want to use another provider, so you switch from provider B (example xfree86) to provider C (xorg). Cleanse will complain about every spell which has not been recast which was last cast with the first provider. This can be fixed manualy with a simple sed, but it would be nice to have it done in cleanse or cast automaticly