Bug 317427

Summary:	app-portage/eix-0.19.2:0: doesn't find obsolete entries in package.keywords
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Toralf Förster <toralf>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Jeremy Olexa (darkside) (RETIRED) <darkside>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal	CC:	martin, pchrist
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2010-04-27 08:25:18 UTC

I'm wondering why eix-test-obsolete brief doesn't complain about this outdated entry in /etc/portage/package.keywords/misc :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

Comment 1 Martin Väth 2010-05-03 17:46:49 UTC

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.

Comment 2 Toralf Förster gentoo-dev

2010-05-03 20:36:03 UTC

(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