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