On Saturday 09 September 2006 06:24, b.n. wrote: > >>> Calculating world dependencies \ > >>> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all > >>> !!! masked or don't exist: > >>> net-im/aim > > > > You really should do something when you see warnings like this. > > net-im/aim was masked for removal more than five weeks ago. It was > > removed from the tree yesterday. There are more viable alternatives so I > > suggest you unmerge it and use something else. > > Huh? > Usually I ignored these warnings unless there was a good reason to care > about. What happens if I leave an old no more maintained package on my > system? can I b0rk things?
Well, maybe it's just me but I prefer to get rid of warnings from emerge, get revdep-rebuild to report nothing to rebuild and get emerge --depclean to report nothing to remove. There are proper ways to fix all of these things. In this particular case I guess the worst that can happen is that a security hole in aim is discovered and since nobody is maintaining it you never get to know... -- Bo Andresen
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