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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files?
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:24:03
Message-Id: 20110325092228.51929090@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files? by Dale
1 On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:38 -0500, Dale wrote:
2
3 > Naturally this returned a lot so we have to use common sense before
4 > deleting something. That said, what about these:
5 >
6 > /usr/bin/cc
7 > /usr/bin/c++
8 > /usr/bin/c89
9 > /usr/bin/gcc
10 > /usr/bin/gcov
11 > /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-c++
12
13 I think these are created by gcc-config, so don't belong to any package.
14 If you want to do this regularly, I'd suggest creating a list of
15 exceptions that you can exclude from find. You don't need to search
16 everywhere, /{,usr}/{,s}bin, /{,usr}/lib and /opt should be sufficient.
17
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19 --
20 Neil Bothwick
21
22 To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it.

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Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files? Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>