From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19D40138A08 for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:07:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 23CB721C07E; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:07:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id ED6F821C01B for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:07:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.210] (unknown [24.86.176.233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: dolsen) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B6AAE33E67F for ; Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:07:45 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1360796853.3997.186.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo From: Brian Dolbec To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 15:07:33 -0800 In-Reply-To: <511BEDB2.1010101@binarywings.net> References: <511BEDB2.1010101@binarywings.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.6.3 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 19cab141-ab67-46ea-a3f6-94edd011ca4c X-Archives-Hash: e28a3db07baf8fa64b6f23c8d0ace82a On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Am 13.02.2013 20:19, schrieb Michael Sterrett: > > # Michael Sterrett (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 :/