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On Thursday 20 May 2010 10:05:57 Willie Wong wrote: |
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> On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 07:38:43AM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 20 May 2010 06:34:37 Willie Wong wrote: |
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> > > Hi list, |
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> > > I ran 'eclean-dist' last night (with no additional arguments) to clean |
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> > > out /usr/portage/distfiles. And it generated a bit of interesting |
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> > > |
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> > > output that I haven't seen before: |
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> > > The folowing Deprecated installed packages were found |
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> > > |
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> > > media-libs/libpng-1.2.43-r1 |
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> > > dev-python/reportlab-2.3-r1 |
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> > > app-i18n/gcin-1.4.7_pre17 |
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> > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.31-r9 |
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> > > dev-perl/URI-1.53 |
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> > > dev-java/sun-jdk-1.5.0.22 |
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> > > |
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> > > I don't see anything about this feature in 'man eclean'; does anyone |
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> > > know what this is all about? |
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> > It means those package version are deprecated and you are encouraged to |
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> > upgrade them. |
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> Ah... I see, I was trying to figure out what they meant by deprecated |
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> and how they determined it. It seems that the only thing common to |
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> those packages is that their ebuilds are no-longer in the tree. |
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> So I guess I'm not going to worry too much about it: if they haven't |
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> gotten updated regularly that probably means they are either bdeps or |
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> that they will be depcleaned the next time I do it. |
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This word "deprecated" confuses tons of people. I don't know if it does that |
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to you or not, but lots of other people read this list, so for their benefit |
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here goes. |
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"deprecated" means "this package has been superceded by something else and |
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although it is still available and works, you are encouraged to stop using it |
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and upgrade". The intent is that eventually a deprecated package will go away. |
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The root word it derives from basically means "to make smaller or less |
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important". It's not the same thing as "depreciate" or "removed" or "obsolete" |
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or "disappeared". |
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Each one of those packages you list has more up to date versions available in |
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the tree. |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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