From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner --reallyall and leftover files, that I didn't touch.
Date: Sun, 9 Feb 2025 17:46:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e4f7f295-836b-ac5f-71e9-3e33a8ca347f@gmail.com> (raw)
Howdy,
It was mentioned a while ago in a thread that running perl-cleaner
--reallyall on occasion is a good idea. It makes sure everything is
stable. So, it hit me, I haven't ran it in a while, month or so. When
I did, it re-emerged a lot of packages like it usually does. Then it
listed a large list of leftover files. If it were just a few, I'd use
equery and such to see what belonged to what and if it was safe to
remove them. Thing is, it is quite a long list. It could take me days
to check each one. I found a old thread that talked about a delete
option. I check the man page, that option is no longer listed so I
guess it is no longer available.
So, what is the correct way to deal with these and be safe? Obviously I
don't want to remove something the system needs. I also don't want a
growing list of files that are no longer needed hanging around either.
While at it, is there a way to remove any files that doesn't belong to a
package? A system wide clean up if you will.
Thanks.
Dale
:-) :-)
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2025-02-09 23:46 Dale [this message]
2025-02-10 10:01 ` [gentoo-user] perl-cleaner --reallyall and leftover files, that I didn't touch Michael
2025-02-10 10:53 ` Dale
2025-02-10 11:15 ` Michael
2025-02-10 17:11 ` Dale
2025-02-17 15:21 ` Dale
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