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From: "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.net>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 00:22:53 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200701020023.00231.bss03@volumehost.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070101162435.5cfea602@osage.osagesoftware.com>

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On Monday 01 January 2007 15:24, David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com> 
wrote about 'Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild':
> One can list binaries known to portage with:
>
>    cat /var/db/pkg/*/*/CONTENTS | grep /usr/bin/
>
> If that's compared to /usr/bin/*, orphaned binaries can be identified.

What about stuff installed to /bin, /sbin, and /usr/sbin?  Or even rarer 
places like somewhere under the /opt tree.

-- 
"If there's one thing we've established over the years,
it's that the vast majority of our users don't have the slightest
clue what's best for them in terms of package stability."
-- Gentoo Developer Ciaran McCreesh

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-01-02  6:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-01 14:16 [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild Uwe Thiem
2007-01-01 14:57 ` Rudmer van Dijk
2007-01-01 20:13   ` Uwe Thiem
2007-01-01 23:49     ` Neil Bothwick
2007-01-01 16:18 ` Norberto Bensa
2007-01-01 17:15 ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
2007-01-01 20:16   ` Uwe Thiem
2007-01-01 21:24     ` David Relson
2007-01-02  6:22       ` Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. [this message]
2007-01-02  6:31         ` Uwe Thiem
2007-01-01 17:16 ` Bo Ørsted Andresen
2007-01-01 19:30   ` Strong Cypher

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