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

["Luis F. Araujo" <araujo@gentoo.org>]

Hello everyone,

A few days ago i glanced over package.mask , and i was surprised
about how many non-existent ebuild/packages entries are there.

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* 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. 
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?

I *of course* haven't checked all of the entry generated by the script 
manually ,
so there might probably exist packages which are indeed correct, so 
please re-check
before doing something.

I also noticed (slight detail) that there are a couple of recent entries 
at the bottom
of this file, isn't the policy to have new entries added at the top? , 
is there any special
reason for this?

Ok, that's all for now!


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