On Monday 04 February 2008, Mick wrote: > On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Sullivan wrote: > > > Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream? > > > > It's been dead for some time since AOL had a hissy fit over the > > name. > > > > The new gaim is now called pidgin. It's not a new product really, > > just a version bump that is a name change. > > > > It was hard masked in portage very recently. Unfortunately for gaim > > users, the upgrade consists of unmerge gaim, merge pidgin, import > > settings. > > OK, I can surely do that, but shouldn't portage warn me about Gaim > being hard masked? Is my portage borked, or is this behaviour no > longer valid/expected?
No, there's nothing wrong with your system. Portage will allow you to have an installed package that isn't in the tree anymore as a copy of the ebuild is in /var somewhere. Maybe if you set verbose logging it will alert you but this isn't an error. If it were, people would be forced to remove stuff everytime some dev masked a package on a whim. Remerging gaim is another story, then portage will correctly tell you that it can't do the update. In short, your gentoo is working correctly as designed. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
