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From: Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
To: gentoo-alt@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: missing perl-core/Encore-2.12
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:23:19
Message-Id: 20090731072315.GE17838@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-alt] Re: missing perl-core/Encore-2.12 by Torsten Veller
1 On 31-07-2009 09:19:07 +0200, Torsten Veller wrote:
2 > * Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>:
3 > > > It was always package masked.
4 > > > It pdepends on >=perl-core/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30 which is not even in
5 > > > prefix (and not in the gentoo).
6 > >
7 > > That doesn't matter, the version existed, and there is no successor in
8 > > the tree. Anyway, -r6 should be back in Prefix now.
9 >
10 > Well, I can add a another masked and broken revision if that's what you
11 > and your users expect :rolleyes:
12
13 I would expect such version never to enter gentoo-x86... but that's a
14 totally different discussion.
15
16 I think the problem became in effect because the mask for -r7 was
17 removed while Prefix kept the -r7 version in tree, because it it hard
18 and sometimes impossible to keep a 1-1 sync of gentoo-x86/prefix.
19
20
21 --
22 Fabian Groffen
23 Gentoo on a different level

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-alt] Re: missing perl-core/Encore-2.12 Fabian Groffen <grobian@g.o>
[gentoo-alt] Re: missing perl-core/Encore-2.12 Torsten Veller <tove@g.o>