Re: [gentoo-user] Cleaning out /etc/portage easily??

[Dale]

Christopher J. Camisa wrote:
> On 06/01/2016 02:28 AM, Dale wrote:
>> Howdy,
>>
>> I suspect there may be more people than me wondering about this one.  I
>> have quite a few entries in /etc/portage files, especially keywords.
>> I'd like to know if there is a tool that deletes no longer needed
>> entries itself.  I been using eix-test-obsolete but doing it manually
>> can take quite a while.  Is there a tool that I can run and it clean out
>> those files itself instead of me doing it one line at a time?  I figure
>> there has to be someone out there that has already done this, surely.
>>
>> Anyone have any info on such a beast?
>>
>> Thanks much.
>>
>> Dale
>>
>> :-)  :-)
>>
>>
>>
> Hi Dale,
>
>     You're looking for enalyze from app-portage/gentoolkit.
>     Have a look in the manual, ENALYZE(1) for usage.
>
> DESCRIPTION
>        Enalyze  is  a collection of modules for analyzing the state of
> installed Gentoo packages for USE flags or
>        keywords used for installation, and their current masking status.
>        It can also optionally (re)generate new /etc/portage/package.*
> files.
>
> Kind Regards,
> -Camisa

That looks veeeerrryyyy interesting.  That just may be what I need.  It
seems to do it backwards from what I was expecting but I'll give it a
shot, once I read how to use it.  ;-)

Thanks much.

Dale

:-)  :-)