Neil Bothwick schrieb:
> On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 14:02:38 +0200, Daniel Pielmeier wrote:
>
>> But what is the difference between a "redundant entry" and an
>> "uninstalled entry". As far as I see the matching criteria of both
>> checks is a package which is not installed or in the database but in a
>> package.* file.
>
> Redundant is where the package is still available but the /etc/portage.*
> entry is no longer needed. e.g. you have "dev-lib/foobar-1.1 ~x86" in
> package.keyworkd but it is now stable.

Sounds reasonable, thanks!

> Btw: eix-test-obsolete can not check for obsolete use-flags at the
>> moment?
>
> flagedit will warn if you have obsolete flags in /etc/portage
> or /etc/make.conf.
>

Thanks!

I wonder when there will be one single tool which is capable to take
care of a configuration and cleaning /etc/portage/ or is there already
one i miss?

Regards,

Daniel

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