I'm wondering why eix-test-obsolete brief doesn't complain about this outdated entry in /etc/portage/package.keywords/misc : =kde-base/solid-4.3.5-r1 althought I'm running KDE 4.4.2 since a while. Reproducible: Always
You probably also have a line like e.g. kde-base/solid:4.4 It is somehow a design decision that eix collects all entries in /etc/portage/package.keywords matching for one package and only checks whether the combined result has redundancies. This is necessary, because subsequent lines can cancel the result of earlier lines. For instance you can have something like foo/bar amd64-linux >=for/bar:2 -amd64-linux ~amd64 and so testing of the first line without knowledge of the latter line does not really make sense. I hope, it is clear now why the combination of both lines =kde-base/solid-4.3.5-r1 kde-base/solid:4.4 is not considered as redundant: eix cannot distinguish it from the single line kde-base/solid In the particular case you describe, an individual testing of lines might thus make sense, but I see no reasonable way to combine both (the possibility to use -~x86 later just causes lots of trouble). So I think, I will leave it as it is.
(In reply to comment #1) > You probably also have a line like e.g. > kde-base/solid:4.4 Yes - I overlooked the separate kde-4.4 file > So I think, I will leave it as it is. of course
