Re: [gentoo-user] having unavailable packages installed

[lee]

Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> writes:

> lee wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> how is it possible that a package is installed which is not available?
>>
>>
>> eix glibmm
>> [?] dev-cpp/glibmm
>>      Verfügbare Versionen:   (2) 2.44.0 2.46.4 2.48.1 ~2.50.0
>>        {debug doc examples test ABI_MIPS="n32 n64 o32" ABI_PPC="32 64" ABI_S390="32 64" ABI_X86="32 64 x32"}
>>      Installierte Versionen: 2.50.1(2)(16:58:00 24.04.2017)(-debug -doc -test ABI_MIPS="-n32 -n64 -o32" ABI_PPC="-32 -64" ABI_S390="-32 -64" ABI_X86="64 -32 -x32")
>>      Startseite:             http://www.gtkmm.org
>>      Beschreibung:           C++ interface for glib2
>>
>>
>> 2.50.1(2) appears to be installed but is not available.
>>
>>
>
> Usually when you see that, it was removed from the tree.  Some packages
> are upgraded in the tree then a little while later, older versions are
> removed from the tree.  I've seen that several times.  There may be
> other reasons for that but that is the one I see quite often.

You mean one of the not-so-old version was removed?  That could be.

> By the way, if for some reason you have to have that version, you can
> grab the ebuild and put it in a local overlay.  Make sure you don't let
> that get updated/removed before you do that tho.

I don't know, I only came across it when trying to get mysql-workbench
to compile.  I don't know why it's installed.

> Hope that helps.

ty :)

> Dale
>
> :-)  :-)
>
>
>

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