Re: [gentoo-user] Deleted kdevelop ebuilds

[Fernando Rodriguez]

On Friday, February 27, 2015 11:45:52 AM Alan McKinnon wrote:

> You can look in the packages Changelog in the portage tree, perhaps
> there's an entry there explaining why the old version was removed.

It only says "Version bump. Removed old"
 
> ebuilds are never truly lost, if you still have it installed the ebuild
> is stored in /var/db. If not, you can find it in the gentoo attic
> (google can help), download it and put it in your local overlay. Mask
> the versions you don't want and portage will ensure your local copy
> stays installed.

Thanks, I found it on the attic, I didn't know you could get deleted ebuilds 
from it. I think it would be best if portage didn't downgrade packages 
automatically.

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Fernando Rodriguez