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From: Matthias Hanft <mh@hanft.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Discontinued Package: Copy to local overlay, just leave installed, or install manually?
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 10:24:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c346c684-6b48-46b4-d70d-299d59684408@hanft.de> (raw)

Hi,

according to https://bugs.gentoo.org/718972 (and a posting
in the dev list), gsutil (and all needed libs) will be removed
from the tree because "it's broken" (which is not true - works
like a charm).

Since I do need gsutil urgently, I have already copied the needed
ebuilds from /usr/portage to a local overlay in order to "emerge
-c gsutil::gentoo" and then "emerge gsutil::local".

But then came to my mind: Is that necessary at all? As far as I
know, I can just leave discontinued packages installed and continue
to use them - regardless of whether they are still in portage tree
or not. True or false?

Or is it better to get rid of portage/ebuilds at all and do a
manual installation, as described at
https://cloud.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil_install?hl=en ?

Thanks,

-Matt


             reply	other threads:[~2023-02-19  9:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-19  9:24 Matthias Hanft [this message]
2023-02-19 10:02 ` [gentoo-user] Discontinued Package: Copy to local overlay, just leave installed, or install manually? tastytea
2023-02-19 10:03 ` Mike Civil
2023-02-19 11:57   ` Matthias Hanft
2023-02-19 12:46     ` Mike Civil

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