Re: [gentoo-user] having unavailable packages installed

[Dale]

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. 

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. 

Hope that helps.

Dale

:-)  :-)