[email protected] wrote: > On 03/26/2017 05:16 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 26/03/2017 23:14, [email protected] wrote: > >> I'm in a process of clean-up my packages. > >> Running: eix-test-obsolete > >> > >> Shows a lot of valuable information, but I can not decode entries > >> in: > >> > >> Installed packages with a version not in the database (or masked): > >> ... > >> example > >> [?] app-editors/nano (2.6.3@03/25/2017 -> 2.3.1-r2): GNU GPL'd Pico > >> clone with more functionality > >> > >> I've nano-2.6.3 installed. What does the "-> 2.3.1-r2" indicates? > >> > > > > > > > > Oh come on Thelma, really? > > > > > > Did you even bother to read the eix man page? This is getting > > tiresome. Please just stop it, gentoo-user is not your personal > > Google clone or a quasi-brain you can tap for any answer without > > doing some thinking of your own > > > > A simple eix nano would have told you everything: > > > > It's in section "installed packages not in database" > > Latest stable nano is 2.6.3. You have 2.3.1-r2 > > Apology Alan, but this still isn't very clear to me. > Yes, I did check with "eix nano" and it showed that I had latest > version installed. > > Even "emerge -Ca nano" showed I had no prior version installed. > So am still confused why is it has "-> 2.3.1-r2" > > I figured it must be a pointer to an older version but since I had a > newest version installed why pointer to an older version? > > man eix only shows "eix-test-obsolete" is equivalent to eix -tTc
Maybe an eix-update will help. -- Regards wabe
