Re: [gentoo-user] having unavailable packages installed

[Alan McKinnon]

On 30/04/2017 01:01, 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.
>
>

it was available
you installed it
then it went out of portage
you still have it installed
portage has yet to find a good reason to upgrade/remove/touch it

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Alan McKinnon
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