Re: [gentoo-dev] torsmo has been recontinued named conky. plan on removing torsmo

[Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr>]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:55:48 +0100
Thomas de Grenier de Latour <degrenier@easyconnect.fr> wrote:

> I think it would be better to package.mask it with some comment
> like "Deprecated, masked in favor of app-admin/conky", because
> that's something emerge reports when it makes world updates fail

Oops, no, i'm wrong: when a masked package is in world but is not
depended-on by anything else, world update will not fail with the
comments from package.mask, but simply point to emaint and then
continue, ignoring the package. And `emaint --check  world` does
not seem to report comments from package.mask, so my solution is
not that good neither to inform users about what's happening in
such a case.

There is still the solution of the dummy ebuild with some relevant
einfo to replace the actual deprecated package (i think i've seen
that in the past, winex-cvs for instance IIRC), but that's ugly :/

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