On Fri, 3 Apr 2015 09:00:52 +0100, Stroller wrote:

> Slightly OT, but are there any tools for cleaning out old entries?
> 
> I could write a script to go through package.keywords line by line and,
> for packages where the entry is =package-version.1.2.3, delete those
> lines where a newer version of the package is now installed on the
> system.
> 
eix-test-obsolete will do this, but it won't handle all cases. If foo
requires libbar to have a particular USE flag and you unmerge foo, but
libbar is still needed by something else, it will continue to be built
with the unnecessary flag.


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Neil Bothwick

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