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eix can access Gentoo portage ebuild information and description very quickly (using a local cache). It can also be used to access information on installed packages, local settings, and local and external overlays, and informs about changes in the tree
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eix-test-obsolete should tolerate */* and cat/* in package.license #102

Closed jonasstein closed 2 years ago

jonasstein commented 2 years ago

Example

/etc/portage/package.license/package.license contains

media-fonts/* bh-luxi
*/*PUEL

then we will get a warning for each available package which does require this license setting.

Not installed but in /etc/portage/package.license:
...
[N] media-fonts/font-arabic-misc (1.0.3-r2): X.Org arabic bitmap fonts
Found 197 matches
Only 50 matches displayed on terminal
Set EIX_LIMIT=0 to show all matches

Solution

eix-test-obsolete should not warn if someone accepts a license in general (with *)

echo "*/* $(cpuid2cpuflags)" > /etc/portage/package.use/00cpu-flags as explained in https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/CPU_FLAGS_X86 does not trigger eix-test-obsolete warnings too.

vaeth commented 2 years ago

Marking uninstalled packages is what eix by default is configured to consider as redundancy:

REDUNDANT_IF_IN_LICENSE="-some"

For package.use this is not the case:

REDUNDANT_IF_IN_USE="false"

It is up to you to change this default (e.g. in a file in /etc/eixrc) if you want to have the same behavior as for package.use:

REDUNDANT_IF_IN_LICENSE="false"