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

[warnera6 <warnera6@egr.msu.edu>]

Luis F. Araujo wrote:
> 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!
> 
> 

Looks like something that could be added to the "list of unstable 
ebuilds" deal that also gets sent here, simple to script... ;)
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