Re: [SLUG] Safe ? or not !

From: Backward Thinker (backwardthinker@juno.com)
Date: Wed Feb 04 2004 - 22:13:54 EST


> Thanks for replying guys. Guess I will just leave them alone.
> There may or may not be extraneous files/packages that exist there
> and never to be used again, but how would one know for sure. Use up
> a little extra space on the HD. Oh well !!

Use "rpm -qf /path/to/filename" to identify the source of package-installed files. If you are using an rpm-based distribution, seeing as how the directories you are concerned with are within /usr/lib/ and /usr/share/, everything should be able to be accounted for.

~ Daniel

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