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 1MEIdE-0007zk-1H for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:54:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 136FAE05B4; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:53:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-gx0-f207.google.com (mail-gx0-f207.google.com [209.85.217.207]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EA9FEE05B4 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 07:53:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gxk3 with SMTP id 3so1890990gxk.10 for ; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:53:57 -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=8RWEMh+TG4IOMGp4010L6klk7dsbxI6/1NU6hgx08WE=; b=WPFPAExOlng8t+Slv65uDwTz0aPYBcsUixmNlEzNUm3JD0vNBvYaofkE6DpAixWY+v qpUqZpVBMcsrC2lK4d91QuE+wXQ+lqNSbs54yJVZwGoJVdqUgJt4vB4sXV0YinLvEa15 dQLhQPYAHYIQg43ZiGLbjirIZHm7MZZWHPg1c= 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=jNbnRZZfnjqvMRPvE60Lm/uY5mvEVnI5oW9fMxgdwqkea94ZfuyVmT3+iMdroEdNFN 64QEU5rkpPse16jdcc+u5ksuqazbkwze6Mj5xXX+K+TUIHkC0R+oJqWkJnXmdwzPG/zs Q5uzhQeWjMl3lUV8LDLARTWbgZN3Vu5szKKIM= Received: by 10.90.49.3 with SMTP id w3mr887059agw.46.1244620437629; Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?64.89.164.165? (r164h165.dixie-net.com [64.89.164.165]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 2sm12353171agd.34.2009.06.10.00.53.55 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Wed, 10 Jun 2009 00:53:57 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4A2F6690.7090907@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 02:53:52 -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> <4A2DAC7B.6060806@gmail.com> <20090609190111.354f05a1@coercion> In-Reply-To: <20090609190111.354f05a1@coercion> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ed73fb8d-2d1c-402a-a4b0-5adebf6ef980 X-Archives-Hash: f16ecc400a1db4953310719f8632b9c3 Mike Kazantsev wrote: > On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 19:27:39 -0500 > Dale 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 :-) :-)