| mmm I take your point - what ideas are out there to do that thought? I agree it is hard ... Good news is that for the "known/commont stuff" you can always have a central database of the random/temp stuff they generate. E.g., mysql generetes tmp files here and there, and so and so - so you could profile all that common stuff in that way. Then the uncommon stuff or your custom things, you declaratively say "do not track" as you do with code today. Moreover you can do it in a way that is crowdsourced - ie: if its a cloud service when people declare such and such in mongodb is random/temp then you learn for all users. At the end of the day there is a limited number of things people use and for the long tail it is OK for people to be declarative I guess. But on the flip side I can see how that could end up being a nightmare. But wouldn't it be nice to do something as simple as pull/commit/push for general purpose computers? |