[gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

[gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

[Crístian Viana]

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hi,

I'd like to remove unneeded entries on package.keywords and I was wondering
if there's some program to do that (or if it's a good idea for me to try to
do it :) ). for example, I may have:

=www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.6

but later (hopefully) this package will be unmasked and that entry becomes
totally useless. and I may also unmask an ebuild without a version, and some
time later this ebuild will have no keyworded version, so that
package.keywords entry will be useless too.

see you,

-- 
Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]

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Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

[Dale]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> hi,
>
> I'd like to remove unneeded entries on package.keywords and I was 
> wondering if there's some program to do that (or if it's a good idea 
> for me to try to do it :) ). for example, I may have:
>
> =www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.6
>
> but later (hopefully) this package will be unmasked and that entry 
> becomes totally useless. and I may also unmask an ebuild without a 
> version, and some time later this ebuild will have no keyworded 
> version, so that package.keywords entry will be useless too.
>
> see you,
>
> -- 
> Crístian Deives dos Santos Viana [aka CD1]

This should work.

eix-test-obsolete

Be prepared for a LONG list tho.  It prints a LOT on mine.  I would also 
recommend you save a copy of those files just in case.

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

[Fab]

On Fri, 5 Feb 2010 21:56:43 -0200
Crístian Viana wrote:
> for example, I may have:
> 
> =www-client/mozilla-firefox-3.6
> 
> but later (hopefully) this package will be unmasked and that entry
> becomes totally useless. 

# emerge eix
# eix-test-obsolete -d

Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:11:49 -0600, Dale wrote:

> eix-test-obsolete
> 
> Be prepared for a LONG list tho.  It prints a LOT on mine.

That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P


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Neil Bothwick

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Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

[Dale]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> On Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:11:49 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>    
>> eix-test-obsolete
>>
>> Be prepared for a LONG list tho.  It prints a LOT on mine.
>>      
> That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P
>
>    

True but if the OP hasn't cleaned his before, he may very well have a 
lot of cleaning to do as well.  I clean mine every few months and it 
still has some size to the output.  It just depends on how much as went 
stable since adding a package to one or more of those files.

It is handy tho.  I'm glad someone wrote that little program.

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:01:47 -0600, Dale wrote:

> > That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P

> True but if the OP hasn't cleaned his before, he may very well have a 
> lot of cleaning to do as well.  I clean mine every few months and it 
> still has some size to the output.

That's why I run it every week :)


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Master of all I survey (at the moment, empty pizza boxes)

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Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

[Dale]

chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
> On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 14:01:47 -0600, Dale wrote:
>
>    
>>> That just means you have a lot of cleaning up to do :P
>>>        
>    
>> True but if the OP hasn't cleaned his before, he may very well have a
>> lot of cleaning to do as well.  I clean mine every few months and it
>> still has some size to the output.
>>      
> That's why I run it every week :)
>
>    

You got to much time on your hands.  You need better things to do.  lol

Dale

:-)  :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] remove unneeded package.keywords entries

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sat, 06 Feb 2010 15:22:19 -0600, Dale wrote:

> >> True but if the OP hasn't cleaned his before, he may very well have a
> >> lot of cleaning to do as well.  I clean mine every few months and it
> >> still has some size to the output.
> >>        
> > That's why I run it every week :)

> You got to much time on your hands.  You need better things to do.  lol

:-)

When maintaining a Gentoo system, little and often usually take less time
in the ling run. I get emailed the results of eix-test-obsolete,
revdep-rebuild -p  and a couple of other checks from each computer each
week. Most weeks I just scan the mails and move on as nothing is
reported. Occasionally I remove a line or two from /etc/portage/*, which
is far less work than trying to decipher the mess after leaving it for
several months.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

... "I'm simply not a nice girl", she whispered tartly.

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