Re: [gentoo-user] Finding orphaned libs

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Mike Kazantsev wrote:
> 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.
>
>   

All the more reason for me to leave them alone then huh?  ;-)  We all
know what happens to portage when python pukes up last weeks meal.  :/

Dale

:-)  :-)