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 :-) :-)
