[gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Mick
Hi All, Kevin's previous message alerted me to the fact that Gaim has been deprecated. Sure enough I see this: [D] net-im/gaim Available versions: [M] 1.5.0 [cjk debug eds gnutls krb4 nas nls perl silc spell tcl tk] Installed versions: 1.5.0(00:46:02

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 February 2008, Mick wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage?  Is it dead upstream? It's been dead for some time since AOL had a hissy fit over the name. The new gaim is

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage?  Is it dead upstream? It's been dead for some time since AOL had a hissy fit over the name. The new gaim is now called pidgin. It's not a new product

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Mick wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: It was hard masked in portage very recently. Unfortunately for gaim users, the upgrade consists of unmerge gaim, merge pidgin, import settings.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Michael Sullivan
On Mon, 2008-02-04 at 08:14 +, Mick wrote: Hi All, Kevin's previous message alerted me to the fact that Gaim has been deprecated. Sure enough I see this: [D] net-im/gaim Available versions: [M] 1.5.0 [cjk debug eds gnutls krb4 nas nls perl silc spell

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: Why is gaim no longer in portage?  Is it dead upstream? It's been dead for some time since AOL had a hissy fit over the name. The new gaim is now called pidgin. It's not a new product really, just a version bump that is a name change. It was

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Willie Wong
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 10:21:49PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: I routinely read $PORT_DIR/profiles/packages.mask after a sync to check what has changed recently and do something about it before it bites me in the ass Last rites and removals are also announced in GWN/GMN. W -- Willie W.

Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

2008-02-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Monday 04 February 2008, Mick wrote: Remerging gaim is another story, then portage will correctly tell you that it can't do the update. In short, your gentoo is working correctly as designed. Thanks Alan,  I can remember though that XMMS (and other packages) were flagged up as hard

Re: [gentoo-user] portage behaviour

2005-06-11 Thread Mark Shields
Interesting. I'm in the process of using those options to get any packages with USE flags that have changed since it was installed, wasn't aware there was an option to do that. Thanks for the tip. On 6/10/05, Rumen Yotov [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Seems that portage is getting more and more

[gentoo-user] portage behaviour

2005-06-10 Thread Rumen Yotov
Hi, Seems that portage is getting more and more clever ;) For some time after emerging or unmerging a package, had to rebuild some packages which had a dependency (USE-flag) on that package. Ex. added 'postgresql' and had to rebuild some packages which have such flag. Yesterday replaced 'fam' with