From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 739E115800F for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2023 09:24:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 84347E0845; Sun, 19 Feb 2023 09:24:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vserver2.hanft.noris.de (vserver2.hanft.noris.de [213.95.70.238]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 26952E0825 for ; Sun, 19 Feb 2023 09:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from home01.hanft.de (home01.hanft.de [93.241.247.224]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) server-digest SHA256) (No client certificate requested) by vserver2.hanft.noris.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8091D967645; Sun, 19 Feb 2023 10:24:23 +0100 (CET) To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Matthias Hanft Subject: [gentoo-user] Discontinued Package: Copy to local overlay, just leave installed, or install manually? Message-ID: Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2023 10:24:20 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 SeaMonkey/2.49.4 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: bf1ba481-71b1-465d-9ba6-bf12021191b4 X-Archives-Hash: c26b4dde9de88d1139a3207bc026f70f 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