From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:07:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360796853.3997.186.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <511BEDB2.1010101@binarywings.net>
On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
> Am 13.02.2013 20:19, schrieb Michael Sterrett:
> > # Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@gentoo.org> (13 Feb 2013)
> > # No longer licensed for sale upstream.
> > # Masked for removal on 20130315.
> > games-strategy/x2
> > games-strategy/x2-demo
> >
>
> Sure, I cannot buy it anymore. But what about people who already own it
> and would like to re-emerge it or migrate it between PCs?
>
> Regards,
> Florian Philipp
>
>
Easy, just copy the ebuild and any patches in the files subdir to a
local overlay.
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml
That is one of the reasons things are masked for at least 30 days before
removal. To give affected people some time to deal with it however they
want.
We can't be expected to keep old stuff around forever :/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-13 23:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-13 19:19 [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo Michael Sterrett
2013-02-13 19:46 ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-13 23:07 ` Brian Dolbec [this message]
2013-02-14 0:08 ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-14 1:03 ` Alec Warner
2013-02-14 7:12 ` Michał Górny
2013-02-14 11:53 ` Rich Freeman
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