All: As I type this gentoolkit-0.2.1 has been marked stable on x86 and I expect it to be marked stable on other architectures in the next few days.
Here is a summary of the major changes between gentoolkit-0.2.0 and gentoolkit-0.2.1. A detailed listing of the changes are in /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.1/ChangeLog * eclean Added eclean utility for cleaning out your distfiles and Packages directories. Sample usage to remove distfiles for packages no longer installed on your system: eclean-dist --destructive --fetch-restricted ----time-limit=1w --destructive means to delete files for older version of installed packages. The default is to leave all source files for an installed package --fetch-restricted means to not delete files that are fetch-restricted --time-limit means to not delete files newer than the time specified eclean also supports excluding specific packages and categories through the use of an exclusion file. Please read man eclean for more details. * revdep-rebuild Updated revdep-rebuild to be more configurable by the user. One of the major complaints about revdep-rebuild is that is always wants to rebuild certain binary packages. For example openoffice-bin, mozilla-firefox-bin, etc. The main variable that users will potentially want to modify is SEARCH_DIRS_MASK. You can modify this variable either in your environment or by placing it in /etc/make.conf. For example to ensure that revdep-rebuild doesn't look in /opt you can add the line SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt" to /etc/make.conf and revdep-rebuild will not search that directory. Removed the hard-coded paths of directories to search and dynamically generate the list using the path from /etc/profile and /etc/ld.so.conf. This means that as you install packages, revdep-rebuild will normally automatically pick up any paths that have been added by the package. Read man revdep-rebuild for more information on the updated revdep-rebuild. Finally, as much as I would like it, revdep-rebuild is not infallible. There are still open bugs and it can still miss things. * equery Many fixes to equery to make it more usable. The major fix was fixing an issue that caused it to be extremely slow and memory hungry. However, even with that fix, equery is not the fastest program on the block. If the lack of speed bothers you, I would recommend investigating the app-portage/portage-utils package. If you have any questions on the new gentoolkit, feel free to ask here on gentoo-user and I will answer them provided another user doesn't beat me to it :) Regards, Paul
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