Re: [gentoo-user] How can I find all "orphaned" files?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Mar 2011 01:33:38 -0500, Dale wrote:
>
>    
>> Naturally this returned a lot so we have to use common sense before
>> deleting something.  That said, what about these:
>>
>> /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.
>
>    

So if they were deleted things would still work?  Just curious.  This is 
a recent install so I wasn't expecting it to find much, just files I 
created basically.  I just thought it odd that it found so many files 
and that qfile/equery didn't know where they came from either.

That gcc one bugs me tho. It's in /usr/bin but doesn't belong to a 
package.  Just blows my mind, which ain't much right now.  lol   I got 
to get better meds.

Dale

:-)  :-)