Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Willie Wong wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:52:23PM -0500, Penguin Lover Dale squawked:
>   
>> Questions:  You knew I subscribed to this list.  lol  I ran the command:
>>
>> find -H /usr/lib /lib -type f | xargs qfile -o
>>
>> and I got a lot of hits.  I'm just going to post snippets of the
>> directories here.  It is a LONG list otherwise.
>>
>> /usr/lib/gimp/2.0/plug-ins/
>> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i486-linux/sys/
>> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/dbus/
>> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Numeric/
>> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/PyQt4/uic/
>> /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Pyrex/Plex/
>> /usr/lib/portage/pym/
>>
>> Some of those directories have additional directories in them but I
>> tried to hit the highlights.  Now to my questions.  Can these be
>> deleted?  Should one make certain these doesn't belong to some package
>> somewhere?  Should I update my backups BEFORE deleting these?  o_O
>>     
>
> Depends if you do have those packages installed. Numeric is from
> dev-python/numeric, for example.
>
> 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. 
>
> Ditto for some of the files in the perl directory. 
>
> W
>   

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.

Tho there was a good many of them, I suspect most all of them belongs to
something here.  I may just leave well enough alone, may poke around a
little but nothing risky.

Thanks.

Dale

:-)  :-)