MINI-BUILDD-CRUFT(8)

🧹 mini-buildd-cruft(8) — the "who left this here" detector 💅

okay so this one lives in section 8 of the System Administration Utilities manual, and bestie, it is exactly what it sounds like: it goes looking for the leftover junk your mini-buildd has been quietly hoarding.

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✨ NAME ✨

mini-buildd-cruft — lists probable cruft files, i.e. the ones that showed up because of older versions or straight-up bugs 🙈

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mini-buildd-cruft [--interactive-remove|--automatic-remove] (as user mini-buildd)

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

So the whole vibe of this thing is: list probable cruft files — the ones left behind by older versions or by bugs. That's it, that's the job. It's giving spring cleaning but make it automated. 🎀

Run it as user mini-buildd, no cap. That part is not a suggestion, it's literally in the synopsis. 👑

And then you've got two modes to pick from, and like, you can only pick one at a time (they're separated by a | in the synopsis, so it's an either/or situation, iykyk):

• --interactive-remove — for each bit of cruft it finds, it hits you with a removal prompt. Very "are you sure, bestie? 🥺" energy, one item at a time.
• --automatic-remove — it removes all the cruft it found, no interaction, no asking, no stopping to check in. Just gone. 💀

⚠️ lowkey important: --automatic-remove deletes everything it finds with zero confirmation. If you want a say in the matter, that's what --interactive-remove is for. Choose accordingly. 🌈

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💖 a lil sign-off 💖

This page is for mini-buildd-cruft, version 2.4.8ubuntu1, dated February 2026. That's the whole thing — go forth and declutter, you absolute icon. 🫶✨💅