On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Sergei Trofimovich <sly...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> slep noticed and reported an odd thing:
>
> $ euse -i kate
> ...
> ls: cannot access /gentoo/portage/metadata/cache/kde-base/kdebindings-perl-*: 
> No such file or directory
> ls: cannot access /gentoo/portage/metadata/cache/kde-base/kdebindings-ruby-*: 
> No such file or directory
> ...
>
> The dirs they don't contain ebuilds. Only metadata.
> KDE team is aware and fixing their orphans.
>
> I've decided to write a hack to find such instances in tree:
>
> $ ./find_empty.sh ~/portage/gentoo-x86/
> kde-base/kdeaccessibility-colorschemes
> kde-base/kdeaccessibility-iconthemes
> kde-base/kdebase-wallpapers
> kde-base/kdebindings-csharp
> kde-base/kdebindings-perl
> kde-base/kdebindings-ruby
> kde-base/kvtml-data
> kde-base/smoke
> media-plugins/mytharchive
> media-plugins/mythbrowser
> media-plugins/mythgallery
> media-plugins/mythgame
> media-plugins/mythmovies
> media-plugins/mythmusic
> media-plugins/mythnetvision
> media-plugins/mythnews
> media-plugins/mythweather
> x11-themes/mythtv-themes
>
> Is there any reason to leave such ebuildless directories?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --
>
>  Sergei

Let's get this script added to http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/

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