safe to delete /usr/share/gtk-doc/html ?

maggie · 2012-05-05 17:53:55

It contains about 19 MB of html files which I don't think I need. Safe to delete? Same for

/usr/share/gtk3
/usr/share/pygtk
/usr/share/gtk-doc

Pres · 2012-05-05 18:08:20

I would not delete files. Even if they aren't needed, they will just appear again when the package is upgraded.

Edit: Removed deleting gtk-doc from my advice, it's not just that package that places files there.

Last edited by Pres (2012-05-05 18:11:15)

ConnorBehan · 2012-05-05 19:05:08

Makepkg used to do this by default so it is perfectly safe. In fact I wrap pacman in a script that deletes directories like this. The only package I know of that stores important stuff there is gtk-doc itself.

graysky · 2012-05-05 19:56:01

@CB - can you post a link to the wrapper script of which you speak? Sounds useful.

Trilby · 2012-05-05 19:59:25

ConnorBehan wrote:

The only package I know of that stores important stuff there is gtk-doc itself.

I don't know what is considered important, but that is certainly not the only package to store info there:

:/usr/share/gtk-doc/html$ pacman -Qo */* | awk '{print $5 $6;}' | sort -u
error: cannot determine ownership of directory 'pygtk/cursors'
error: cannot determine ownership of directory 'pygtk/icons'
error: cannot determine ownership of directory 'pygtk/images'
atk2.4.0-1
cairo-xcb1.10.2-4
dbus-glib0.98-1
enca1.13-2
gdk-pixbuf22.26.1-1
geoclue0.12.0-5
gimp-devel2.8.0-1
gstreamer0.100.10.36-1
gstreamer0.10-bad0.10.23-1
gstreamer0.10-base0.10.36-1
gtk22.24.10-3
libcroco0.6.5-1
libglade2.6.4-3
libnotify0.7.5-1
librsvg2.36.1-1
libsoup2.38.1-1
libxml22.7.8-2
orbit22.14.19-2
orc0.4.16-1
p11-kit0.12-1
pango1.30.0-1
pygobject2-devel2.28.6-5
pygtk2.24.0-3
raptor2.0.7-2
rasqal1:0.9.28-1
redland1:1.0.15-3
schroedinger1.0.11-1
udev182-1

It seems many packages use this folder. And this is on a pretty lightweight system (dwm only, no DE).

karol · 2012-05-05 20:02:04

There are apps that can slim down your system by removing docs, locales etc. e.g. bleachbit.

ConnorBehan · 2012-05-05 22:08:32

graysky wrote:

@CB - can you post a link to the wrapper script of which you speak? Sounds useful.

Enjoy. But please be warned that it makes some other reckless modifications... you might not want all of them.

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