Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Fri, 21 May 2010 13:44:02 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > You quote one of the three definitions in the OED. The second is > > "plead earnestly against", which applies here. The third is "pray > > against" which applies just before removal fro the tree :) > > I don't have access to the OED;

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-21 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 20 May 2010 15:46:50 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Thu, 20 May 2010 14:07:49 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > The root word it derives from basically means "to make smaller or > > > less important". > > > > Actually, in the Mother Tongue, it means "to express disapproval > > of" (I quote

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 20 May 2010 14:07:49 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > The root word it derives from basically means "to make smaller or > > less important". > > Actually, in the Mother Tongue, it means "to express disapproval of" (I > quote an Oxford English dictionary). You quote one of the three de

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 20 May 2010 09:20:54 Alan McKinnon wrote: > The root word it derives from basically means "to make smaller or > less important". Actually, in the Mother Tongue, it means "to express disapproval of" (I quote an Oxford English dictionary). > It's not the same thing as "depreciate" or

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 May 2010 11:36:46 Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > Ah... I see, I was trying to figure out what they meant by deprecated > > > and how they determined it. It seems that the only thing common to > > > those packages is that thei

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 10:20:54AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Ah... I see, I was trying to figure out what they meant by deprecated > > and how they determined it. It seems that the only thing common to > > those packages is that their ebuilds are no-longer in the tree. > Each one of those pa

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 May 2010 10:05:57 Willie Wong wrote: > On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:38:43AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:34:37 Willie Wong wrote: > > > Hi list, > > > > > > I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean > > > out /usr/portage/dist

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-20 Thread Willie Wong
On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:38:43AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:34:37 Willie Wong wrote: > > Hi list, > > > > I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean > > out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting > > output that I h

Re: [gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-19 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:34:37 Willie Wong wrote: > Hi list, > > I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean > out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting > output that I haven't seen before: > >The folowing Deprecated installed packages were

[gentoo-user] Deprecated installed packages

2010-05-19 Thread Willie Wong
Hi list, I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting output that I haven't seen before: The folowing Deprecated installed packages were found media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r1 dev-