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 :-) :-)
