Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

[Mike Kazantsev <mk.fraggod@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:27:39 -0500
Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:

> > Also, be careful when you parse the output of the command. Most of the
> > .pyc and .pyo files in the python2.5 directories are byte-compiled
> > version that python generated dynamically the first time they are
> > used. For example: ..../Numeric/numeric_version.py was installed by
> > the ebuild and thuse qfile tells me it belongs to dev-python/numeric,
> > but .../Numeric/numeric_version.pyc is listed as an "orphan". While it
> > is safe to delete, it will just be regenerated again later, wasting
> > computing cycles. 
> 
> That's sort of what I was thinking.  It was generated when it was
> started up the first time.  I also noticed some things that I installed
> in the Seamonkey directory too.  Adblock was one of those.

That's not quite correct: .py[co] are generated by emerge right after
package installaton and these won't come back unless you use these libs
as root, since python won't have write access to these paths and will
be byte-compiling each script on-the-fly.

-- 
Mike Kazantsev // fraggod.net

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