Re: [gentoo-user] Showing installed packages that aren't in portage tree(s)

[Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 2:19 PM, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> chrome://messenger/locale/messengercompose/composeMsgs.properties:
>>
>> Just what I needed. Thanks!
>>
>>
>
> Let me also add that the output has changed.  I tried to clean up some
> package.* files a while back and it turned into a mess.  Before you change a
> file, make a backup just in case.  It seems to list some things that maybe
> it shouldn't.  Maybe I am missing something somewhere but it isn't the way
> it used to be.  I need to run it and just sit and study the list and test
> some things.  There may be some rhyme or reason for what it is doing that I
> just don't see yet

Fear not, the redundant / missing flags in my package.xxx files are
more of an out-of-sight, out-of-mind thing for me. I figure they're
not breaking anything nor adding that much cruft by just being there.
Crufty packages though, bug me, especially when they block my
upgrades/revdeps/uninstalls.

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