Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Matthias Bethke <matthias@×××××××.de>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:20:30
Message-Id: 20081112001100.GD7927@aldous
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] amd64codecs masked by Daniel Iliev
1 Hi Daniel,
2 on Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 11:37:42PM +0200, you wrote:
3 > Thanks for the reply.
4 > I hate to unmask packages, because I forget to clean the entries
5 > when they become obsolete. It seems I'll make an exception this
6 > time.
7
8 I used to hate that job but since the eix package added
9 eix-test-obsolete, it's been a breeze. Just drop a little script in
10 /etc/cron.monthly so you'll get a mail with the output if you tend to
11 forget it (not that it hurt much if you do).
12
13 cheers,
14 Matthias
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