qlist -Iv $(portageq --repo gentoo --orphaned)
On Wednesday, 20 December 2017 23:54:27 MSK Christopher Head wrote:
> On December 20, 2017 8:49:03 AM PST, "Michał Górny" <[email protected]> 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.
>
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Best regards.
Ilya Tumaykin.
