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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files?
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:35:26
Message-Id: 4D8C6187.9060101@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files? by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:38 -0500, Dale wrote:
3 >
4 >
5 >> Naturally this returned a lot so we have to use common sense before
6 >> deleting something. That said, what about these:
7 >>
8 >> /usr/bin/cc
9 >> /usr/bin/c++
10 >> /usr/bin/c89
11 >> /usr/bin/gcc
12 >> /usr/bin/gcov
13 >> /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-c++
14 >>
15 > I think these are created by gcc-config, so don't belong to any package.
16 > If you want to do this regularly, I'd suggest creating a list of
17 > exceptions that you can exclude from find. You don't need to search
18 > everywhere, /{,usr}/{,s}bin, /{,usr}/lib and /opt should be sufficient.
19 >
20 >
21
22 So if they were deleted things would still work? Just curious. This is
23 a recent install so I wasn't expecting it to find much, just files I
24 created basically. I just thought it odd that it found so many files
25 and that qfile/equery didn't know where they came from either.
26
27 That gcc one bugs me tho. It's in /usr/bin but doesn't belong to a
28 package. Just blows my mind, which ain't much right now. lol I got
29 to get better meds.
30
31 Dale
32
33 :-) :-)

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files? Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>