On 2022-04-16 09:10+0100 Jorge Almeida <jjalme...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 16, 2022 at 8:14 AM Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 15 Apr 2022 22:47:26 +0100, Jorge Almeida wrote:
> >  
> > > ... is gone, essentially. Any suggestion regarding some
> > > alternative?  
> >
> > It's masked i portage and dead upstream, but that doesn't
> > necessarily mean it is no longer usable. If it still does what you
> > want, copy the ebuild to your overlay and unmask it by adding it to
> > /etc/portage/profile/package.unmask.
> >  
> Will try that. But the masking message says "Dead package upstream.
> Uses GTK+ 2". Does this mean that GTK+ 2 is on its way out as well?

It is on its way out, but there are still some packages blocking its
removal: <https://bugs.gentoo.org/768993>. I can't say for sure, but I
guess GTK+ 2 will stay at least another few months.

> (I suppose someone will make an ebuild for gcolor3 sooner or later...)

I just packaged it for ::guru. 😊 It should become available in the
next days. If you can't wait, you can grab it from here:
<https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/guru.git/tree/gui-apps/gcolor3?h=dev>.

Kind regards, tastytea


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