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From: Brian Dolbec <dolsen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2013 23:07:56
Message-Id: 1360796853.3997.186.camel@big_daddy.dol-sen.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] last rites: games-strategy/x2, games-strategy/x2-demo by Florian Philipp
1 On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote:
2 > Am 13.02.2013 20:19, schrieb Michael Sterrett:
3 > > # Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@g.o> (13 Feb 2013)
4 > > # No longer licensed for sale upstream.
5 > > # Masked for removal on 20130315.
6 > > games-strategy/x2
7 > > games-strategy/x2-demo
8 > >
9 >
10 > Sure, I cannot buy it anymore. But what about people who already own it
11 > and would like to re-emerge it or migrate it between PCs?
12 >
13 > Regards,
14 > Florian Philipp
15 >
16 >
17
18
19 Easy, just copy the ebuild and any patches in the files subdir to a
20 local overlay.
21
22 http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml
23
24 That is one of the reasons things are masked for at least 30 days before
25 removal. To give affected people some time to deal with it however they
26 want.
27 We can't be expected to keep old stuff around forever :/

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