On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 22:18:26 -0400 "Luis F. Araujo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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 post that script too, makes things easier to verify. > *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. Please add category information to that list and sort it. Thanks. > 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? Don't do this without explicitly checking with the maintainer for a package (if existant). Generally redundant entries in package.mask don't hurt, so if it's not absolutely clear that the entry is not needed anymore keep it. Marius -- Public Key at http://www.genone.de/info/gpg-key.pub In the beginning, there was nothing. And God said, 'Let there be Light.' And there was still nothing, but you could see a bit better.
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