On 15 September 2015 09:50:08 BST, Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> On Monday 14 September 2015 21:41:54 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 15:56:25 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > When I ran "emaint all" just now I got "has outdated metadata"
> against
> > > five KDE packages. Does anyone here know what that implies? Google
> > > didn't help.
> > 
> > It's not a real problem, but emaint has a fix mode, see the man
> page.
> 
> Actually, the man page doesn't mention -f; you have to run emaint
> --help to 
> find it. This is the first such case I've come across.
> 
> Now that I've run emaint -f movebin and emaint -f moveinst,
> eix-test-obsolete 
> takes a fraction of the time it used to. I'm now trying to decide
> whether to 
> be suspicious or relieved.  ;)
> 
> -- 
> Rgds
> Peter

It does here, under default options. 
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