Re: [gentoo-user] Showing installed packages that aren't in portage tree(s)

[Dale]

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> I used to think that eix did that.
>
> After eixing back and forth for some non-existent
> app-office/{kugar,koshell,kexi} (wouldn't show up on my eixes) that
> was holding back my --depcleans of kdelibs:3.5 and
> koffice-{libs,data}:3.5, then doubling back on the manual page, I
> discovered it didn't :D
>
> Is there an option or filter I could pass to qlist to find out which
> packages are installed but not in the portage tree(s)? The qlist -ICv
> suggestion from the eix man page only shows all installed packages. My
> goal is to either remove them or put them in the local overlay.
>

I think "eix-test-obsolete -d" will do that.  I don't have any installed 
that are not in portage at the moment so I can't test it to be sure.

Be warned, this thing can output a LOT of stuff.  If you are in a 
console, you may want to pipe to a text file or to less or something.

Dale

:-)  :-)