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From: Daniel Campbell <zlg@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] removal of bopm before hopm is in tree
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2016 06:41:08
Message-Id: 9cae4789-033f-0dbb-6b73-8bb6d811c9a8@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] removal of bopm before hopm is in tree by Raymond Jennings
1 On 08/25/2016 07:29 PM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
2 > I still use bopm, and it built fine last time I emerged it.
3 >
4 > If hopm isn't in the tree yet, why was bopm still pmasked for removal?
5 >
6 > Reason for asking is I'm curious about removal procedures. I was under
7 > the impression that replacement packages get added to the tree before
8 > their obsolete predecessors get pmasked for booting out.
9 >
10 > And if that's not the case, should it be?
11 That's a good question, best answered by the developer who chose to have
12 the package removed.
13
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