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qlist -Iv $(portageq --repo gentoo --orphaned) |
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On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 23:54:27 MSK Christopher Head wrote: |
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> On December 20, 2017 8:49:03 AM PST, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o> wrote: |
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> >Ad. 1. We currently have over 1650 m-n packages [1] and the list keeps |
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> >growing. The advantage of this type is that we have an explicit list |
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> >and everyone clearly sees that the packages need a new maintainer. We |
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> >also have some dedicated people who try to help fixing worst issues |
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> >but they're obviously not capable of doing all the work themselves. |
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> Is there an easy way to check whether any packages I have installed on my system are m-n? I checked “man q” and “man equery” but neither seemed to support searching by maintainer. The closest I found was “equery meta”, but that requires a specific package name on the command line. |
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> I read the last rites and it’s quite easy to notice if a package I actively use is shown there, but that doesn’t help with the hundreds of libraries and other dependencies whose names I don’t even really recognize but I have installed. |
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Best regards. |
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Ilya Tumaykin. |