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 1MDpBr-00017Z-Ek for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 09 Jun 2009 00:27:47 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B0788E043B; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 00:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C2BCE043B for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2009 00:27:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so6412817and.1 for ; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:27:45 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=tal+ohm3H9HfPSuYssgKIaT/nmJ8MRYLVQdvOPSEdbE=; b=iZkK5sw/4ekKe6+E8amb61bSzmc+dPwDtrb8ahV+dLj8iJxz3eRrtLVQc2CO3F308g wX0fxh5S33l7UpKVkiIHpN3LsGl8rjSh7uODa3IWtq4wjxgoEAwA6Sks88KxlUbEaHZX SNJ/W/SjsTT+qUGg2RHfju0UYOzCOkqH/SRHc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KyF+eNZOivi6LKFMT0XUuDkl+oV+0wcryW+dqRlclGZEyQVe0nDQApuIY5hLbxBoac TNYL36bW40izUchWaYh0x68PaKzQjvMXdNKFBZ3uIXNFBmeBvd8SsV8A7IuxbIrPmrN9 SXKDFXbipC4YZ4iLtTNyFbkcEbMdclQTyTV2k= Received: by 10.100.124.11 with SMTP id w11mr831930anc.165.1244507264867; Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.163.19? (r163h19.dixie-net.com [64.89.163.19]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 6sm6534325agd.32.2009.06.08.17.27.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 08 Jun 2009 17:27:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A2DAC7B.6060806@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:27:39 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090529 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs References: <200906082244.18324.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <20090608215408.3c4b4c91@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <4A2DA437.2070501@gmail.com> <20090609001816.GA28479@princeton.edu> In-Reply-To: <20090609001816.GA28479@princeton.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 835db560-b816-4a77-b2a4-ea11fceef454 X-Archives-Hash: f610e9d77048ecb2016177aada6d7d9e 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 :-) :-)