Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out /etc/portage easily??

["Christopher J. Camisa" <chris@camisa.org>]

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On 06/01/2016 03:56 AM, Dale wrote:
> Dale wrote:
>> Christopher J. Camisa wrote:
>>> On 06/01/2016 02:28 AM, Dale wrote:
>>>> Howdy,
>>>>
>>>> I suspect there may be more people than me wondering about this one.  I
>>>> have quite a few entries in /etc/portage files, especially keywords. 
>>>> I'd like to know if there is a tool that deletes no longer needed
>>>> entries itself.  I been using eix-test-obsolete but doing it manually
>>>> can take quite a while.  Is there a tool that I can run and it clean out
>>>> those files itself instead of me doing it one line at a time?  I figure
>>>> there has to be someone out there that has already done this, surely. 
>>>>
>>>> Anyone have any info on such a beast? 
>>>>
>>>> Thanks much.
>>>>
>>>> Dale
>>>>
>>>> :-)  :-) 
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hi Dale,
>>>
>>>     You're looking for enalyze from app-portage/gentoolkit.
>>>     Have a look in the manual, ENALYZE(1) for usage.
>>>
>>> DESCRIPTION
>>>        Enalyze  is  a collection of modules for analyzing the state
>>> of installed Gentoo packages for USE flags or
>>>        keywords used for installation, and their current masking status.
>>>        It can also optionally (re)generate new
>>> /etc/portage/package.* files.
>>>
>>> Kind Regards,
>>> -Camisa
>>
>> That looks veeeerrryyyy interesting.  That just may be what I need. 
>> It seems to do it backwards from what I was expecting but I'll give
>> it a shot, once I read how to use it.  ;-)
>>
>> Thanks much.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-) 
>
>
> OK.  Did a little reading on this and gave it a test run.  It doesn't
> generate quite what I was expecting.  This is a sample of what it
> generates.
>
>
> kde-plasma/kde-cli-tools ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kde-gtk-config ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kdecoration ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kdeplasma-addons ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kgamma ~amd64
> kde-plasma/khotkeys ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kinfocenter ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kmenuedit ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kscreen ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kscreenlocker ~amd64
> kde-plasma/ksshaskpass ~amd64
> kde-plasma/ksysguard ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kwallet-pam ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kwayland-integration ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kwin ~amd64
> kde-plasma/kwrited ~amd64
> kde-plasma/libkscreen ~amd64
>
>
> This is a example of what I currently have in my keyword file.
>
>
> # required by kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.6.4::gentoo
> # required by @selected
> # required by @world (argument)
> =kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.6.4 ~amd64
> # required by kde-plasma/plasma-desktop-5.6.4::gentoo
> # required by kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.6.4::gentoo
> # required by @selected
> # required by @world (argument)
> =kde-frameworks/karchive-5.22.0 ~amd64
> # required by kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.6.4::gentoo
> # required by @selected
> # required by @world (argument)
> =kde-plasma/kinfocenter-5.6.4 ~amd64
> # required by kde-plasma/plasma-workspace-5.6.4::gentoo
> # required by kde-plasma/plasma-meta-5.6.4::gentoo
> # required by @selected
> # required by @world (argument)
> =kde-plasma/kwin-5.6.4 ~amd64
>
>
> The output of what emerge gives includes a version.  The enalyze
> program seems to leave that out which may lead to upgrades that I'm
> not looking for yet. 
>
> What I was hoping for, something that would for example see that
> plasma-workspace-5.6.4 is either no longer installed or no longer
> keyworded and can be removed from the file and then remove it. 
> Honestly, I'm not a scripting guru but I sort of think it would be a
> hard thing to do given that basically every line would have to be
> checked.  Also, the commented part above it would be deleted to in a
> ideal world.  That to would be difficult since not all lines have
> those above it.
>
> Hmmmm.  Gonna see what else it can do. 
>
> Dale
>
> :-)  :-) 
Hi Dale,

    Try again, but this time use the --exact option to your invocation
on the command line.

Kind Regards,
-Camisa

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