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On Wed, 2013-02-13 at 20:46 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: |
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> Am 13.02.2013 20:19, schrieb Michael Sterrett: |
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> > # Michael Sterrett <mr_bones_@g.o> (13 Feb 2013) |
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> > # No longer licensed for sale upstream. |
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> > # Masked for removal on 20130315. |
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> > games-strategy/x2 |
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> > games-strategy/x2-demo |
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> Sure, I cannot buy it anymore. But what about people who already own it |
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> and would like to re-emerge it or migrate it between PCs? |
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> Regards, |
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> Florian Philipp |
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Easy, just copy the ebuild and any patches in the files subdir to a |
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local overlay. |
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http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/userguide.xml |
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That is one of the reasons things are masked for at least 30 days before |
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removal. To give affected people some time to deal with it however they |
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want. |
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We can't be expected to keep old stuff around forever :/ |