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 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1GcYXE-00007a-Oy for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:30:29 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with SMTP id k9P2SIkP006054; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:28:18 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de [139.174.2.21]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k9P2QGZP024694 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 02:26:16 GMT Received: from poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost (Postfix) with SMTP id AFF56203233 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:25:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from tu-clausthal.de (poseidon [139.174.2.21]) by poseidon.rz.tu-clausthal.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E73203231 for ; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:25:53 +0200 (CEST) Received: from energy.heim10.tu-clausthal.de ([139.174.241.94] verified) by tu-clausthal.de (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1c.4) with ESMTPS id 17722314 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:25:53 +0200 From: "Hemmann, Volker Armin" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Why has xmms been killed suddenly? Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 04:25:52 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 References: <20061024070840.GA7612@atpcbygc.ram.siemens.at> <200610240957.22222.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> <982e82bf0610241748u67b05f1fp794986bc9ce591a2@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <982e82bf0610241748u67b05f1fp794986bc9ce591a2@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200610250425.52243.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de> X-Virus-Scanned: by PureMessage V4.7 at tu-clausthal.de X-Archives-Salt: c97ef501-5dbf-4e28-93cb-b25aad394e91 X-Archives-Hash: fe1a49a37b093d1a22346db814a1de0b On Wednesday 25 October 2006 02:48, Ric de France wrote: > On 24/10/06, Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote: > > And there is a rule about unmaintained packages with dead upstream and > > working successors: they get killed. > > > > Everybody who reads gentoo-dev once in a while knew, that this day would > > come - and nobody should really be surprised. > > It appears that the ebuild has been deleted off the portage tree... > What would be the "safe" way to remove this and to move to another > player? Does "emerge -C xmms" still work? yes it does. When you emerge something, a copy of the ebuild is stored in /var/db/pkg/// (if you want to 'rescue ebuilds of removed but installed packages, just copy them). a safe way: emerge --unmerge xmms (and xmms-plugins and accesoires) emerge --newuse --deep world emerge playerofchoice -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list