Hrm… trying to get comfortable again in my blog. It’s been some uhm… much time since I last used it :roll:. Anyway:<\/p>\n
\n2 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))<\/p>\n
As you will see, potentially<\/em> unused packages are marked with an asterisk.<\/p>\n 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, \nI started to weep out versions for packages which are listed as ‘maintainer-needed’. \nFurther I cleaned many unused version in sci-* packages; from originally 97 packages only 49 have unused versions left.<\/p>\n For the rest of the tree I’ll contact the resposible herds and maintainers for further clean-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading Cleaning out unused versions.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kugelfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kugelfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kugelfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kugelfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kugelfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kugelfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kugelfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7\/revisions\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kugelfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kugelfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gentoo.org\/kugelfang\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\na total of 7111 unused versions. (Just for comparison, the tree has currently around ~23k versions \ud83d\ude10 )\n<\/p>\n
\nIt turned out that of 115 unused packages 113 packages could be freed of any potentially unused version. \ud83d\ude42\n<\/p>\n