On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 11:47 AM, Alan McKinnon <[email protected]> wrote: > On 15/10/2017 16:31, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> On 10/14/2017 09:30 PM, Dale wrote: >>> >>> While at it. Is there a tool that tells when USE flags in make.conf is >>> either no longer used or doesn't even exist anymore? >> >> I don't know of one. It doesn't *sound* hard, but you would have to >> consider local use flags, flags from overlays, USE_EXPAND flags, >> wildcards, USE_ORDER, etc. -- so maybe it's actually hard/slow to do it. >> >> I found this feature request, >> >> https://github.com/vaeth/eix/issues/38 >> >> and I guess that confirms that it's harder than it looks. Checking for >> nonexistent flags would be easier than checking for redundant flags >> because the latter depends on your package manager configuration. >> > > There is a suitable tool. It's called grep, copious use of. > A suitably complex solution for the complexity of the problem! >
Or you could just use portpeek... -- Rich
