Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Justin <justin@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Orphan packages
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2008 15:23:48
Message-Id: 495253FB.2020403@j-schmitz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Orphan packages by Leonid Podolny
1 Leonid Podolny schrieb:
2 > Hi,
3 > I'm sure that this issue has already been discussed here, but I can't
4 > find any such discussions.
5 > Anyway, is there an easy way to find orphan packages, i.e. installed
6 > packages that don't have repository behind? For example, if I used to
7 > have a layman overlay and now I deleted it, all the packages that
8 > belonged to that overlay are now orphans. I would like at least to get a
9 > list of those packages.
10 >
11 >
12 You can use eix for that. I don't know the exact syntax but it works.

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