>> in package.mask: >> >> */*::init6 >> >> eix-test-obsolete find over 27,000 packages under this heading: >> >> Redundant in /etc/portage/package.mask: >> ... considered as REDUNDANT_IF_MASK_NO_CHANGE > > > The reason for this is the following: > Since the category and package is */*, your mask can match every > package - whether it matches depends on the package versions and > where they are from. So, for every package the following happens: > > eix -T checks for all versions of that package whether your > mask matches. Of course, for all packages which do not have a version > in the init6-overlay, the mask does not match, i.e., eix -T recognizes > that your mask has no effect for the tested package and thus outputs > the packge. Only packags which have a version in the init6-overlay > are not output. > > >> Adding the following to package.nowarn doesn't seem to change anything: >> >> */*::init6 mask_no_change > > > This does not help, since the packages which have no version in init6 > will not match this. > > You would need something like the opposite: > */*::gentoo mask_no_change > (and the same for all other overlays you are using). > However, this will suppress also warnings coming from other lines > in your package.mask file. > > So probably it is best if you disable the mask-no-change test > completely: The quickest is to put REDUNDANT_IF_MASK_NO_CHANGE=false > into /etc/eixrc.
I also get 376 matches from "Not installed but in /etc/portage/package.mask" which are surely the packages in my overlays masked by */* but not installed. Do you know the name of this test so I can disable it in eixrc? I looked through man eix but couldn't find it. So REDUNDANT_IF_MASK_NO_CHANGE and the above test are not compatible with masking all but certain packages from an overlay via package.mask/package.unmask. I think what we really need is a better way to install only certain packages from an overlay. - Grant
