Re: [gentoo-user] Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim

[Mick]

On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Monday 04 February 2008, Mick wrote:
> > On Monday 04 February 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> > > It was hard masked in portage very recently. Unfortunately for gaim
> > > users, the upgrade consists of unmerge gaim, merge pidgin, import
> > > settings.
> >
> > OK, I can surely do that, but shouldn't portage warn me about Gaim
> > being hard masked?  Is my portage borked, or is this behaviour no
> > longer valid/expected?
>
> No, there's nothing wrong with your system. Portage will allow you to
> have an installed package that isn't in the tree anymore as a copy of
> the ebuild is in /var somewhere. Maybe if you set verbose logging it
> will alert you but this isn't an error. If it were, people would be
> forced to remove stuff everytime some dev masked a package on a whim.
>
> Remerging gaim is another story, then portage will correctly tell you
> that it can't do the update.
>
> In short, your gentoo is working correctly as designed.

Thanks Alan,  I can remember though that XMMS (and other packages) were 
flagged up as hard masked/not in the tree by Portage.  Am I right?
-- 
Regards,
Mick