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From: Eldad Zack <eldad@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] earch, latest version tool
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 21:46:19
Message-Id: 200410302344.15824.eldad@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] earch, latest version tool by Travis Tilley
1 On Saturday 30 October 2004 23:35, Travis Tilley wrote:
2
3 > Now... if this tool also checked profiles to see which versions could be
4 > safely removed -THAT- would be sexy. Some profiles mask to a specific
5 > version that may or may not be the latest keyworded version in
6 > portage... which certainly makes making sure you dont remove something
7 > needed difficult.
8
9 There's alot of profiles, should it check every packages listing?
10
11 /usr/portage/profiles$ find -name "packages" | wc -l
12 93
13
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16 Eldad Zack <eldad@g.o>
17 Key/Fingerprint at pgp.mit.edu, ID 0x96EA0A93

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Re: [gentoo-dev] earch, latest version tool Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>