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On Saturday 09 September 2006 06:24, b.n. wrote: |
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> >>> Calculating world dependencies \ |
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> >>> !!! Ebuilds for the following packages are either all |
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> >>> !!! masked or don't exist: |
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> >>> net-im/aim |
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> > You really should do something when you see warnings like this. |
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> > net-im/aim was masked for removal more than five weeks ago. It was |
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> > removed from the tree yesterday. There are more viable alternatives so I |
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> > suggest you unmerge it and use something else. |
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> Huh? |
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> Usually I ignored these warnings unless there was a good reason to care |
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> about. What happens if I leave an old no more maintained package on my |
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> system? can I b0rk things? |
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Well, maybe it's just me but I prefer to get rid of warnings from emerge, get |
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revdep-rebuild to report nothing to rebuild and get emerge --depclean to |
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report nothing to remove. There are proper ways to fix all of these things. |
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In this particular case I guess the worst that can happen is that a security |
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hole in aim is discovered and since nobody is maintaining it you never get to |
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know... |
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Bo Andresen |