On Wednesday 13 April 2016 15:16:56 »Q« wrote: >On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 20:14:28 +0100 > >Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 13:00:54 -0500, »Q« wrote: >> > > I don't mind this so much, as when flags become deprecated and >> > > there is no notification, or a tool, to ferret out such >> > > dead-flags.... >> > >> > I should qualify that -- a lot of the descriptions suck, not all of >> > them. When in doubt, I let the profile decide. >> > >> > I think app-portage/ufed automagicly gets rid of dead flags >> > whenever it saves make.conf. >> >> That would be a useful addition to eix-test-obsolete, unless it's >> already there and I missed it. > >It certainly would. I've just tried to find it in man eix and >couldn't, but there's a lot in there. > >I'm going through my /etc/portage/package.use/ now (forgot about that >yesterday) and I've come across a few flags which don't exist any more. >As with the flags in my make.conf, I'm able to simply delete most of >what I had in package.use/ and the process is going quickly.
portpeek -s can be used for checking package.use (but not make.conf). I use it in addition to eix-test-obsolete. HTH -- Marc Joliet -- "People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don't" - Bjarne Stroustrup
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