On 03/26/2017 05:16 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 26/03/2017 23:14, the...@sys-concept.com 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 -- Thelma --
