Basicly it removes the "ebuild U "(or what ever else is there)
from the begining and version numbers from the end of the
list of files genterated by `emerge -p > file.txt`
#!/usr/bin/perl
#this program was created by John teBokkel aka Tanj
#the program is used to remove "[ebuild  N   ]" from
#the dependency list from `emerge -p packageName > file.txt`
#also it removes version information from the end of the ebuild name

use strict;
our($garbage,$string,$file,$newfile);
$file=$ARGV[0];
$newfile=$ARGV[1];
unless($file and $newfile) {
    die "missing argument\nagr1 source agr2 destination\n";
    }

open(FILE,"$file") || die "no such file\nagr1 source agr2 destination\
+n";
open(WORK,">$newfile") || die "could not create file\nagr1 source agr2
+ destination\n";
while(<FILE>) {
    
        
    $garbage=s/\[(.*?)\]//;
    s/\-\d(.*?)\n//;
    $string=$_ . "\n";
    if($garbage==1) { 
    print WORK "$string";
    }
} 

close FILE;
close WORK;

print "done\n";

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turns this 
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating world dependencies   
*** Package in world file is not installed: kde-base/kde
 ...done!
[ebuild    U ] media-sound/alsa-utils-0.9.0_rc8-r1 [0.9.0_rc8] 
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/file-3.41 [3.39] 
[ebuild    U ] net-print/hpijs-1.3.1 [1.3] 
[ebuild    U ] sys-apps/console-tools-0.3.2 [0.2.3-r4] 
[ebuild    U ] media-sound/alsa-driver-0.9.0_rc8-r1 [0.9.0_rc8]

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into this 
 media-sound/alsa-utils
 sys-apps/file
 net-print/hpijs
 sys-apps/console-tools
 media-sound/alsa-driver

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In reply to Gentoo Linux `emerge -p package >file` by Tanj

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