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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files?
Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:22:28 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110325092228.51929090@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D8C3742.30301@gmail.com>

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On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:38 -0500, Dale wrote:

> Naturally this returned a lot so we have to use common sense before 
> deleting something.  That said, what about these:
> 
> /usr/bin/cc
> /usr/bin/c++
> /usr/bin/c89
> /usr/bin/gcc
> /usr/bin/gcov
> /usr/bin/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-c++

I think these are created by gcc-config, so don't belong to any package.
If you want to do this regularly, I'd suggest creating a list of
exceptions that you can exclude from find. You don't need to search
everywhere, /{,usr}/{,s}bin, /{,usr}/lib and /opt should be sufficient.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it.

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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-25  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-24 21:09 [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files? Jarry
2011-03-24 23:10 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-25  6:33   ` Dale
2011-03-25  9:22     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2011-03-25  9:33       ` Dale
2011-03-25  9:47         ` Neil Bothwick
2011-03-25 14:27         ` Mike Edenfield
2011-03-25 16:31           ` Dale
2011-03-25  9:09   ` Mr. Jarry

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