From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1H1dcE-00008U-Oh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 06:59:19 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id l026v4Gu032452; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 06:57:04 GMT Received: from smtp1.iway.na (smtp1.iway.na [196.44.136.15]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l026rTTL018742 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 06:53:30 GMT Received: from vscan.iway.na (vscan.iway.na [196.44.136.13]) by smtp1.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCFCC647D for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:53:26 +0200 (WAST) Received: from mx2.iway.na (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by vscan.iway.na (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4457CB74D8 for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:53:27 +0200 (WAST) Received: from uwix.alt.na ([196.44.130.17]) by mx2.iway.na (Netscape Messaging Server 4.15) with ESMTP id JB8B5303.7VJ for ; Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:53:27 +0200 Received: from uwe by uwix.alt.na with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H1dAy-0007UL-4E for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Jan 2007 08:31:08 +0200 From: Uwe Thiem Organization: SysEx (Pty) Ltd. To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] revdep-rebuild / missing ebuild Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2007 08:31:07 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <200701011616.26753.uwix@iway.na> <20070101162435.5cfea602@osage.osagesoftware.com> <200701020023.00231.bss03@volumehost.net> In-Reply-To: <200701020023.00231.bss03@volumehost.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200701020831.07931.uwix@iway.na> Sender: Uwe Thiem X-Archives-Salt: b1fb4c83-644d-4456-aac4-eab1ed03fcc7 X-Archives-Hash: 3567f09e0ec2e38d22206056a786e17d On 02 January 2007 08:22, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 01 January 2007 15:24, David Relson > > 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. ... and libraries can also be linked against other libraries. So it's also /lib, /usr/lib (and its sub-directories),... Uwe -- A fast and easy generator of fractals for KDE: http://www.SysEx.com.na/iwy-1.0.tar.bz2 -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list