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From: Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim
Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:56:45
Message-Id: 9acccfe50802040755u672a6353h41da55f8adb76d57@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage behaviour with Masked packages - Gaim by Mick
1 On 2/4/08, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > On Monday 04 February 2008, Michael Schmarck wrote:
4 > > Michael Sullivan <michael@××××××××××××.com> wrote:
5 > > > Why is gaim no longer in portage? Is it dead upstream?
6 > >
7 > > It has been renamed to Pidgin in 2007 to prevent some legal
8 > > issues with AOL and their AIM product.
9 >
10 > From Michael Sullivan's comment shall I assume that you also did not see
11 > the
12 > portage warning about Gaim-over (pun intended) or perhaps you never had
13 > Gaim
14 > installed?
15 >
16 > Anyone else who can confirm that they have Gaim installed but not seen the
17 > portage warning?
18 > --
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21 I can; and I'm the OP.
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23 I don't know where the warning would have been seen; generally there's so
24 much stuff
25 that any particular item has to really push to be noticed. But at that
26 time, all ewarn and einfo
27 messages were being mailed to me, but I don't remember seeing this.
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29 ++ kevin
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34 Kevin O'Gorman, PhD