From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EuV3j-0005Y8-Rh for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 13:21:40 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id k05DKCIH008735; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:20:12 GMT Received: from caine.easynet.fr (smarthost167.mail.easynet.fr [212.180.1.167]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k05DG6Vr023046 for ; Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:16:06 GMT Received: from easyconnect2121138-64.clients.easynet.fr ([212.11.38.64] helo=eusebe) by caine.easynet.fr with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EuUyO-0004Xc-FD for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 05 Jan 2006 14:16:08 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 14:18:10 +0100 From: Thomas de Grenier de Latour To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] torsmo has been recontinued named conky. plan on removing torsmo Message-ID: <20060105141810.133d0451@eusebe> In-Reply-To: <20060105135548.55b4f4af@eusebe> References: <200601052308.18092.dragonheart@gentoo.org> <20060105135548.55b4f4af@eusebe> Organization: Fasmz X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 2.0.0-rc1 (GTK+ 2.8.9; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8cb29984-d20c-4a98-8fb1-ca5090a7b4c6 X-Archives-Hash: d421a6234cecbea3ae8c5e39e16e9f95 On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 13:55:48 +0100 Thomas de Grenier de Latour 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 :/ -- TGL. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list