Re: [gentoo-user] compton got masked?

2021-10-12 Thread caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 
On Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 at 19:39, Daniel Pielmeier  
wrote:

> Portage should tell you why in the mask message!

me dumb.

i had to go all over the interwebs to get told by
someone in another continent that the answer is
already written right in the next line in my very
same terminal.

lel.

[gentoo-user] compton got masked?

2021-10-12 Thread caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 
why?

ty,
cm.

Re: [gentoo-user] compton got masked?

2021-10-12 Thread Ionen Wolkens 
On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 07:32:09PM +, caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 wrote:
> why?
> 
> ty,
> cm.
> 

Why not? It's a dead project that was forked as x11-misc/picom (aka
same codebase except it has an active upstream).

Compton itself was also a fork, there's long history of such and it's
better to just move on.
-- 
ionen


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Re: [gentoo-user] compton got masked?

2021-10-12 Thread Canek Peláez Valdés 
‪On Tue, Oct 12, 2021 at 2:32 PM ‫caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人‬‎ <
toraboracave...@protonmail.com> wrote:‬

> why?
>

>From [1]:

Development stopped by upstream. Switch to its actively developed fork,
x11-misc/picom.

Regards.
[1] https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/tree/profiles/package.mask#n77
-- 
Dr. Canek Peláez Valdés
Profesor de Carrera Asociado C
Departamento de Matemáticas
Facultad de Ciencias
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Re: [gentoo-user] compton got masked?

2021-10-12 Thread Daniel Pielmeier 

caveman رَجُلُ الْكَهْفِ 穴居人 schrieb am 12.10.21 um 21:32:

why?

ty,
cm.



Portage should tell you why in the mask message!

https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev-announce/message/d9f2e6c5b001239852b1c686bbab026b

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Regards
Daniel