From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Q33FS-0004PU-Ty for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:24:03 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B57691C03A; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.3.140]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7FC981C03A for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:22:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.83.178] (helo=mail.digimed.co.uk) by smarthost01.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1Q33E7-0003jk-8X for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:22:39 +0000 Received: from digimed.co.uk (yooden.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.6]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C7BD88006D for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:22:36 +0000 (GMT) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 09:22:28 +0000 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files? Message-ID: <20110325092228.51929090@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4D8C3742.30301@gmail.com> References: <4D8BB307.30806@gmail.com> <20110324231045.29883942@digimed.co.uk> <4D8C3742.30301@gmail.com> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8cvs67 (GTK+ 2.22.1; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/J6JTmnFUUIaPeVqOEtFQRa."; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Originating-Smarthost01-IP: [82.69.83.178] X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 0e678aac1989a64440a14fb14e3b58f8 --Sig_/J6JTmnFUUIaPeVqOEtFQRa. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:38 -0500, Dale wrote: > Naturally this returned a lot so we have to use common sense before=20 > deleting something. That said, what about these: >=20 > /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. --=20 Neil Bothwick To be intoxicated is to feel sophisticated but not be able to say it. --Sig_/J6JTmnFUUIaPeVqOEtFQRa. Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.17 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk2MXtkACgkQum4al0N1GQNy+ACgoOjblfXzrw4ahhKjVFoK9WVD SlAAoMIaBbaOQYCK+4re2Ahrm5QX4GRW =kuZy -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/J6JTmnFUUIaPeVqOEtFQRa.--