On Thursday 22 October 2009 15:58:17 Jesús Guerrero wrote: > > depclean only removes packages that it knows for a fact are no longer > > needed. > > This means > > > > - not in world > > - not linked to by anything > > - not depended on by anything > > > > "not in the tree" is not part of that list. If you have a package in > > world > > > that is not in the tree anymore, depclean will leave it as is. It will > > remove > > ancient mere deps that are somehow still lying around though > > Yep, if the package is in world, delclean will not help. > > You could always do it the bash way. I have no idea if there's any tool > out there that will make this easier, but it's simple enough to script it, > something like this should work: > > qlist -I --nocolor | while read pkg; do > if [ ! -d "/var/portage/$pkg" ]; then > echo "$pkg is not in portage" > fi > done > > This will not catch overlays, but it could be easily extended to do so, > it's just a generic (and untested) example. It should work I guess. It just > dumps the list of installed packages, then tries to find a dir with the > same name under your portage directory and if it doesn't exist then the > package name is printed. >
The best place for this would be equery orphan <params> or similar. I'm sure the maintainer will gratefully accept patches :-) -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
