On December 20, 2017 8:49:03 AM PST, "Michał Górny" <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: >Ad. 1. We currently have over 1650 m-n packages [1] and the list keeps >growing. The advantage of this type is that we have an explicit list >and everyone clearly sees that the packages need a new maintainer. We >also have some dedicated people who try to help fixing worst issues >but they're obviously not capable of doing all the work themselves.
Is there an easy way to check whether any packages I have installed on my system are m-n? I checked “man q” and “man equery” but neither seemed to support searching by maintainer. The closest I found was “equery meta”, but that requires a specific package name on the command line. I read the last rites and it’s quite easy to notice if a package I actively use is shown there, but that doesn’t help with the hundreds of libraries and other dependencies whose names I don’t even really recognize but I have installed. -- Christopher Head
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