[gentoo-user] Re: Worrying revdep results against libc.so.6?

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 10/23/2009 07:15 PM, Mick wrote:
> Akonadi won't work with -java +redland USE flags as documented
> elsewhere and has been giving me some errors about /lib/libc.so.6.  I
> run revdep-rebuild against it to see what happens and this is what I
> got at the end of it:
>
> ==================================
> ....
>   * To remove temporary files, please run:
>   * rm /var/cache/revdep-rebuild/*.rr
>   * Found some broken files that weren't associated with known packages
>   * The broken files are:
>   *   /lib/cpp
>   *   /usr/bin/c++
>   *   /usr/bin/cc
>   *   /usr/bin/cpp
>   *   /usr/bin/g++
>   *   /usr/bin/gcc
>   *   /usr/bin/gcov
>   *   /usr/bin/gfortran
>   *   /usr/bin/i386-pc-linux-gnu-c++
>   *   /usr/bin/i386-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
>   *   /usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-c++
>   *   /usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-cpp
>   *   /usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-g++
>   *   /usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc
>   *   /usr/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu-gfortran
>   *   /usr/lib/awk/grcat
>   *   /usr/lib/awk/pwcat
>   *   /usr/lib/gcc-config/wrapper
>   *   /usr/lib/libbfd-2.15.90.0.1.1.so
>   *   /usr/lib/libbz2.so.1.0.2
>   *   /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6.3.4
>   *   /usr/lib/libgettextlib-0.12.1.so
>   *   /usr/lib/libgettextpo.so.0.0.0
>   *   /usr/lib/libgettextsrc-0.12.1.so
>   *   /usr/lib/libgpm.so.1.19.0
>   *   /usr/lib/libltdl.so.0.1.2
>   *   /usr/lib/libltdl.so.3.1.0
>   *   /usr/lib/libopcodes-2.15.90.0.1.1.so
>   *   /usr/lib/libpng.so.3.1.2.7
>   *   /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0.1.2.7
>   *   /usr/lib/misc/pt_chown
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/B/B.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/B/C/C.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/ByteLoader/ByteLoader.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Cwd/Cwd.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Data/Dumper/Dumper.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Devel/DProf/DProf.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Devel/PPPort/PPPort.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Devel/Peek/Peek.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Digest/MD5/MD5.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Encode/Byte/Byte.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Encode/CN/CN.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Encode/EBCDIC/EBCDIC.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Encode/Encode.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Encode/JP/JP.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Encode/KR/KR.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Encode/Symbol/Symbol.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Encode/TW/TW.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Encode/Unicode/Unicode.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Fcntl/Fcntl.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/File/Glob/Glob.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Filter/Util/Call/Call.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/GDBM_File/GDBM_File.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/I18N/Langinfo/Langinfo.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/IO/IO.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/IPC/SysV/SysV.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/List/Util/Util.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/MIME/Base64/Base64.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/NDBM_File/NDBM_File.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Opcode/Opcode.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/POSIX/POSIX.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/encoding/encoding.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/scalar/scalar.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/PerlIO/via/via.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/SDBM_File/SDBM_File.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Socket/Socket.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Storable/Storable.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Sys/Hostname/Hostname.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Sys/Syslog/Syslog.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Time/HiRes/HiRes.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/Unicode/Normalize/Normalize.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/XS/APItest/APItest.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/XS/Typemap/Typemap.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/attrs/attrs.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/re/re.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/threads/shared/shared.so
>   *   /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.5/i686-linux/auto/threads/threads.so
>   *   /usr/lib/portage/bin/sandbox
>   *   /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/fchksum.so
>   *   /usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/magic.so
>   *   /usr/sbin/martian_helper
> ==================================
>
> Is this merely cruft accumulated over the years awaiting to be
> deleted, or should I be more circumspect with the delete button?

This looks pretty old (pyton 2.3?)  I'd say back the files up and then 
delete them.