>> > qfile -orphans ? >> >> That sounds promising but I get: >> >> # qfile --orphans >> Usage: qfile <opts> <filename> : list all pkgs owning files >> > > qfile --orphans needs to take input a filename. > > So to go through your system looking for all orphaned files, you do > something like > > find / -exec qfile -o '{}' \; > > ... which will produce a load of output that you don't want. So best > to (1) restrict to smaller subdirectories (instead of /, do > /usr/lib/perl5), and (2) redirect the output to disk.
Thanks Willie, that gave me a great list. Very cool command. Almost all the orphaned stuff in /usr/lib/perl5 is either in: /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.2 with corresponding but not orphaned contents in: /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.12.2 or the orphaned stuff is in: /usr/lib/perl5/5.12.2/x86_64-linux Do the orphaned files sound OK to delete in this case? Is there a slick way to do so? - Grant