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From: Daniel <dragonheart@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] torsmo has been removed from portage
Date: Sat, 04 Feb 2006 07:05:42
Message-Id: 200602041825.47022.dragonheart@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] torsmo has been recontinued named conky. plan on removing torsmo by Daniel
1 I've taken the simple approach and just removed torsmo. It was in the
2 package.mask for 2-3 weeks.
3
4 Users can emerge conky and rename their configuration file (~/.torsmorc to
5 ~/.conkyrc) and should get similar result.
6
7 On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:08 pm, Daniel wrote:
8 > Torsmo has been inactive upstream for well over a year
9 > http://torsmo.sourceforge.net/changelog.php
10 >
11 > The large number of bugs
12 > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=108594&atid=650929
13 > and large number of patches
14 > http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=108594&atid=650931
15 > resulted in a fork - conky http://conky.sourceforge.net/.
16 >
17 > This is being actively developed by Brenden.
18 >
19 > I propose removing torsmo and placing a package.move entry so that conky
20 > will be the logical upgrade (after all it was the same code base).
21 >
22 > Objections with good logical argument or a name in torsmo/metadata.xml may
23 > be considered.
24
25 --
26 Daniel Black <dragonheart@g.o>
27 Gentoo Crypto/dev-embedded/Forensics/NetMon