Hrm… trying to get comfortable again in my blog. It’s been some uhm… much time since I last used it :roll:. Anyway:
2 days ago I wrote a little gimmick for adjutrix’s –keyword-graph action to show unused versions. (Mind you: this does not consider profile masks nor reverse dependencies (yet))
As you will see, potentially unused packages are marked with an asterisk.
I also hacked up a new action for adjutrix to list all potentially unused versions in the tree. At the time of my last run, this was a total of 4147 packages with unused versions,
a total of 7111 unused versions. (Just for comparison, the tree has currently around ~23k versions 😐 )
I started to weep out versions for packages which are listed as ‘maintainer-needed’.
It turned out that of 115 unused packages 113 packages could be freed of any potentially unused version. 🙂
Further I cleaned many unused version in sci-* packages; from originally 97 packages only 49 have unused versions left.
For the rest of the tree I’ll contact the resposible herds and maintainers for further clean-up.