Re: [gentoo-dev] Around 425 non-existent packages in p.mask?

[Marius Mauch <genone@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:18:26 -0400
"Luis F. Araujo" <araujo@gentoo.org> wrote:

> So, i wrote a script to try to get a list of those orphaned entries,
> and it looks like there are more than 400 packages/ebuilds which are
> still listed in p.m but that don't exist in the tree anymore.
> (A bunch of them from the KDE herd btw)

Please post that script too, makes things easier to verify.

> *Please* take a look at
> http://dev.gentoo.org/~araujo/old_package.mask , for the list of
> these non-existent ebuilds/packages, in case you have forgotten
> something in there. I'd like if  every person takes care of their own
> entries if possible. 

Please add category information to that list and sort it. Thanks.

> If not, i *personally* could go slowly removing the entries, along
> with other people willing to help, or any other _better_ suggestion
> to deal with this?

Don't do this without explicitly checking with the maintainer for a
package (if existant). Generally redundant entries in package.mask
don't hurt, so if it's not absolutely clear that the entry is not
needed anymore keep it.

Marius

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